Beating a Speeding Ticket

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Defense Strategies that DO NOT WORK

Trick the Court:

Any strategy where you ask for extensions in order to have the officer not show for trial. If the officer does not show after your motion for an extension the court will simply grant the prosecution and extension on the basis that you have been granted one previously. 

Any strategy where you pay a different amount then the exact amount of the fine plus court costs believing that they can't register the conviction because the amount is incorrect. Many sites have this as their deep and dark secret.

Bring Witnesses:

Any witness you bring can and will be cross examined by a skilled prosecutor or the Judge. Invariably the witness will do you more harm then good in the cross examination.
 

Taking the Stand Yourself:

Your testimony is suspect by the fact that you are the defendant and the court can and will construe that you are lying. You open yourself to aggressive cross examination where you will do yourself more harm then good.

Arguing that your car can not possibly have reached the speed charged:

This never works because you were clocked by some measuring device. The court will assume that the measuring device was accurate and therefore convict you of the speed charged.

Arguing that the officer targeted the wrong car:

Generally this is argued when there are many cars in your immediate area when you were targeted. The officer will lie and testify that you were the only car and that he had a good reading on your car. The court will take the officers testimony as fact and convict you. (accept as a given that the officer will lie at trial)

Arguing that the officers measuring device was defective:

During the officers examination he will testify to his training in the use of the device and that he properly tested it before your arrest and found it to be functioning correctly.

There is a big difference between proving that the measuring device was defective to making the evidence from that measuring device inadmissible. Making the evidence inadmissible works and generally results in the case being dismissed.

As a rule of thumb, any defense not based on Case Law, State Statute or Federal Regulation will fail.