Originally posted by coolhandluke
I have dealt with many many tickets and usually you can get out of them even if you are guilty. NEVER NEVER NEVER just pay a ticket. The majority of the ticket is court cost so make sure the cops use that money correctly. First, DELAY DELAY DELAY. Whatever the court date is, call a week or so before and tell them you can't make that court date bc whatever. They will send you another court date in about 4 weeks, and that court date will be about a month away. Then call and do the same thing again. and continue to do so for as long as possible. A year is what I usually put the court date off for. The idea is that cops move around to different locations and different positions all the time. Give your cop a year to get transfered or get put into a different job than traffic cop. If a cop is relocated 100 miles away he will not come to court. If the traffic cop is now a narc officer or a detective he will not bother showing up. And about 70 to 80 percent of the time cops don't show up for court anyway unless when they wrote you a ticket you were a real asshole and they remember to get some pay back. If the cop does not show up in court which they usually do not on traffic tickets the ticket is dismissed. Plan B. Call the court house and ask them what you need to do to request in writing a copy of the cops note on the day your ticket was wrote. These requests are always trash canned. Request once, request twice, and if they have never sent you anything and you have the paper trial to prove your requests, then go to court as fast as possible. If the cop does show up, simple lay the 2 requests on the judges desk and say I have tried on two occassion to obtain information to be disclosed to me for my defense by officer so and so and he has ignored my requests for full discloser of information pertinent to my defense. I move for a full immediate dismissal of all charges bc he has denied me my right to a speedy trial. 9 times out of 10 the judge will dismiss it and be done with the whole deal. If he does not dismiss it then request the info again and ask for a new court date to prepare your case then postpone postpone postpone. Since I started driving at 16 I have gotten around 20 or 30 tickets and rightfully so and after the second one was dismissed bc the cop did not show up I started researching it and learned a lot of the loop holes and things to do and not to do. I have gotten out of 90 to 95 percent of all my tickets. I have gotten out of 2 willful and wanton wreakless driving charges (it mean that I was seen and caught doing 100 plus and did so knowingly). Have evaded the police 5 out of 7 times. Meaning I out ran them and hid. The two wreakless driving charges were when I was caught. Also you can find out what kind of radar or laser you were caught with and then ask the cop for his most resent training certification on that machine, also ask for the most recent time the speed detector machine was calibrated. If either of these things are more than a few months old you have grounds to dismiss your ticket. For the under the hood stuff , it sound like they are unfairly singling out younger people with fast looking cars. I strongly doubt they would pull over an older guy with a 500 horsepower GTO and start writing him tickets. I would go with the request the cops notes on you tactic and then the postppone tactic. It works just rean and research your laws in CA and stick it to them for good. And the one guy was right about you not having to let them look under the hood. Anycar can go 72mph and that is not just cause for searching an engine without permission. It could be argued in court. I would ask the cop if he looks at ever cars engine to make sure everything is legal on ever auto he pulls over for speeding. If he says and he will no, the next question is why me, then you can argue he unjustly profiled you. The arabs make a lot of money off this simple argument in law suits, which you could hint at in court. good luck I am currently psotponing a 72 in a 55 myself in VA. There is an interstate btw WV and VA that weave across the borders back and forth. For 1/2 you are in WV then the next 1/2 mile your in VA, then back in WV, then back to VA and so on. Anyway the same interstate in WV the spped limit is 70mph as soon as you go back into VA again its 55mph. In one of the small VA section a damn VA state cop pulled me over for 72mph. Damn asshole bullshit is what it is.
This is so stupid I don't know what to say....:dunno: You are the reason why the rest of us have problems.....