How to beat a ticket

Sat, 3 Jun 2000 01:25:36 -0700
From: Brian H." <[email protected]

It's the cops fault for not understanding and utilizing his radar properly. Most radar tickets can be fault with good success in court. I have had all 7 of my radar tickets dismissed, with the officer showing up in court every time. I have been fighting tickets in court for 16 years and have developed a good strategy for radar tickets.

1) Get the owner and maintenance manual for the specific radar unit that was used on you. Best way is go to the police yard and look in the car to ID the unit. Call the manufacture and your good to go. After you get the manual, you can better cross examine the officers knowledge pertaining to specific specification of the radar he used. Believe me, cops don't memorize all the shit about their radar unit (maximim range, width of beam at certain distances). If you appear to know more about their equipment then they do, it makes them look like idiots. Nothing feels better then making a cop look like a fool in front of a judge!

2) Subpoena the calibration records and the repair log for the specific radar unit. Most radar manufactures recommend that their units be calibrated at the beginning and end of each shift and also preferable after each traffic stop. Cops never calibrate the unit after each stop. I've had cops use radar on me that has not been cal'd in 8 days. Case dismissed!

3) Subpoena the records pertaining to the calibration tuning fork. This is to ensure that the fork used to calibrate the radar unit is itself calibrated.

4) Subpoena the FCC license that is required by law for the department to even be using the radar unit.

5) Subpoena the officers training certificates pertaining to any and all education that he has received in relationship to the operation, calibration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the specific radar unit.
In court ask how long it has been since the officer attended the academy. If the officer said he visually measured your speed, ask when he has had recent, extensive training in visually measuring speed.

6) Subpoena information pertaining to how many radar tickets the officer wrote since the the beginning of his shift up to the time her nailed you. This is to question if the the unit was used excessively (calibration drift).

The list goes on and on! Put some work into fighting the ticket. Walk into court with the attitude of "fuck you cop", but massive respect for the judge. I love going to court. I don't care if it takes me 40 hours to prepare a defense. I will do it every time. I don't care if the ticket only cost $40. I will fight it with all my ability every time.

When you subponea all the above info from the DA's office, they will give you the look of "this is only a traffic ticket, not a OJ trial." Well fuck them, it's going on my record and out of my pocketbook so Mr. DA, I'm giving it all I got to get off.

If, during court, they don't give you all the info you ask for, just make one statement to the judge. "Your honor, under the discovery clause, I have requested from the DA certain documents and information that is being used against me during the hearing. These documents have not been provided to me and thus it was impossible for me to examine the evidence that is being used against me. I am asking for a dismissal of all charges." Case dismissed!

Any question or advice, feel free to contact me.