Re: Speeding in NY State (no Audi content)... hear-say in MA

[Andrei Talalaevskii <andrei@felix.physics.sunysb.edu>]

DFAUTOHAUS@aol.com  wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 98-07-30 18:17:58 EDT, you write:
> 
> <<
>  I think that legally it means that undercover Police cars can only clock
>  your speed and tell to another unit in a marked car to pull you over. In
>  such case, you can insist in court that both cops (who ran the radar and
>  who pulled you over) are present on the hearing if you fight the ticket.
>  It is less likely that court days of two cops coinside and you have
>  better chances to win the case. >>
> True enough in NY and in most states.FYI   NOT the case in Massachusetts where
> the MA supreme court ruled that the state can designate an officer to present
> all the cases in traffic court and one must appeal in order to get the
> arresting officer to appear.

How about inadmissibility of "hear-say" witness statements in any court? 

Andrei