Challenge Environmental Factors & Officer's Methods
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4 Hacks To Beat A Speeding Ticket in court. Get Your Tickets Cops give you Dismissed.
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Beyond calibration and angle, other factors can affect a radar gun's reading. Older radar guns often pick up the largest object in their cone of detection. If there were other vehicles, especially larger ones like semi-trucks, around you, the radar gun might have measured their speed. You should ask the officer in court about the surrounding vehicles at the time of the stop. Additionally, if your ticket was based on the officer's 'visual estimation' of your speed or 'pacing' (where they follow you to match your speed), you can question their training and certification for visual estimation, or the last calibration date of their patrol vehicle's speedometer. Many police officers may not have recent training or be able to provide calibration records for the specific vehicle used.
Goal: Create reasonable doubt by questioning surrounding conditions or the officer's specific speed detection method
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