Speeding Tickets, fighting thereof

[superba]

Hi All,

I couldn't find the real beginning of the thread so I'm striking out on my
own.  FWIW:  I've had (2) traffic tickets in Northern California in the past
2 years, one in Belmont and one in Newark.  I successfully challenged both
following the procedures in _Fight_Your_Traffic_Ticket_and_Win_, ordered
from Nolo Press, Berkeley.

I used a technique called Written Declaration, a California procedure only?,
in challenging both.  I won the first by default because the Officer failed
to respond in writing;  quite possibly because his superiors reasoned "you
can write a dozen tickets while you try to justify this one".  I won the
second because the Officer was livid when he wrote the ticket and listed the
location as an intersection that doesn't exist because the (2) streets named
are parallel.  Moreover, I requested the written records of the officer and
he had tried to cover up his mistake by revising the computer input records.
I pointed this out in my Written Declaration, and the judge decided for me.

Almost all of law enforcement will tell you to be more careful and don't
fight tickets or go to traffic school, but I take the position that I never
know when I'll get another one.  Even now, over a year after the last one, I
still feel uptight about getting another ticket.  I'm a little safer by
being more aware.

I advocate fighting most tickets except in the situations where you reach
the point of diminishing returns.

My .02.

Cheers!

Jim Jordan