Friday the 13th encounter with Big Brother - Page 4

 



  I know someone who got a ticket for running a stop sign.  The officer
wrote on the ticket, "defendant stopped and continued driving".

  I have also heard of harder-to-fight tickets.  Someone else I know
got a ticket for "failure to obey official traffic control devices" or
the like.  If the USA state was PA, the vehicle code item violated would
have been 3111, though the state was one of the other 49.  This is a
most-minimal moving violation or close to that, minimum or near-minimum
fine and no points.
  Drawn on the ticket were pictures of a "Speed Limit 35" sign and a
speedometer reading 55.

  In Philadelphia, there is legal allowance for the police department to
send a representative other than the officer who wrote the ticket.  That
sounds hard to beat unless apealing at risk of great expense to the formal
common pleas court (where there are rules against hearsay evidence, which
the ticketing officer can get around by formally showing up as a witness),
or showing evidence that the ticket was unjustly or improperly issued.

  Oh, in common pleas or higher courts, one who is one's own attorney
usually has a fool for a client.
--
 - Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)