NC-Cops to ticket drivers for 1 MPH over the speed limit

[UWDude]

A radar gun is tuned at least once a week, and can only be expected to be about 10% accurate. Your speedometer can only be expected to be within 10% of accuracy. Any tickets within 20% of the limit can be thrown out in a court of law.

1 or 2 mph above the limit is not provable.

 

[jmdrake]

LOL. I hope they do it. Maybe then people will start waking up. Then again, most likely not.

 

[specsaregood]

A radar gun is tuned at least once a week, and can only be expected to be about 10% accurate. Your speedometer can only be expected to be within 10% of accuracy. Any tickets within 20% of the limit can be thrown out in a court of law.

1 or 2 mph above the limit is not provable.

Lawyers are gonna love making the dough off this debacle.

 

[LibertyRevolution]

Lawyers are gonna love making the dough off this debacle.

What lawyer? Mail the ticket in with not guilty and request:
The calibration records for the device that measured your speed.
The officer that was operating said device most recent certified training certificate date.

They will just Nolle the ticket, its too much hassle on their end.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

What lawyer? Mail the ticket in with not guilty and request:
The calibration records for the device that measured your speed.
The officer that was operating said device most recent certified training certificate date.

They will just Nolle the ticket, its too much hassle on their end.

Actually I've beaten a couple of tickets with this method. "Beating the Radar Rap" is a great resource on exactly how to do this...
If even a few percentage of people charged with these bogus tickets would do this it would kill their "system".

 

[Dr.3D]

So what you're saying is speed kills. Duh, I learned that in high school drivers safety course a long time ago.

When I read those signs along the road that said, "Speed Kills", I was thinking they were talking about drugs.

 

[muh_roads]

Won't that bring in more revenue though through taxes on sales of legal mj?

Yeah maybe, but at least it would be more visible. Crooked narcs keep and resell the spoils.

 

[LibertyRevolution]

Actually I've beaten a couple of tickets with this method. "Beating the Radar Rap" is a great resource on exactly how to do this...
If even a few percentage of people charged with these bogus tickets would do this it would kill their "system".

Yep, in a busy court, as soon as the prosecutor see that you may actually mount a defense they tend to just Nolle them.
Why waste their time actually fighting a case when most people don't even fight them..

You should always fight traffic tickets, even if guilty, you can normally plea down to a non moving violation that don't raise your insurance rates.

 

[Knightrider24]

The whole story was BS. A news agency in Raleigh ran with the story and every other news agency followed suit. Outside of a few Barney Fifes no one would even be stopped for 1 mph over much less ticketed.

 

[Knightrider24]

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/03/24/ticket-56-mph-55-not-likely-nc/82204916/