Re: Speeding? -Reply-longish

[dan_masi@MENTORG.COM (Dan Masi)]

Here's another way out of a ticket that I heard of someone
using successfully.  Mind you, this is complete hearsay...
anyone know if this could really work?

The idea is that you have a right to request the officer's
deposition if you do so in writing so many days prior to
the court date.  A "friend of a friend of a friend" wrote
a long, rambling three-page letter to the police department,
complaing about how it was dark, how the officer had bad
breath, blah, blah, blah... and smack in the middle of the
letter, requested a written deposition.  He figured that it
would largely go unnoticed because the letter was too long
and rambling.  And he was right... the deposition never came,
he went to court and pointed out that he had requested it,
and the case was dismissed.

Dan Masi
'96 A4Q