Well, I've never challenged a ticket before and I haven't been to traffic court before. I used to just pay the fine and do traffic school to keep the point off my record.

I already had the pretrial, I guess. I went to court back on November 5th to request the trial. The D.A. said that they would be willing to reduce the fine (big deal, reducing the fine from $110 to $87 doesn't mean much to me).

My citation from the officer says that he didn't use radar, and that the speed I was traveling was 70-75mph. If he was pacing me, why wouldn't he just put 70 or 75mph? Is he just making a guess?

The posted limit was 55mph. It is not a maximum posted limit, but a prima facia speed limit. The conditions were clear, 12:20AM in the morning, and no traffic.

To be honest, I wasn't aware of the NMA, and I wasn't aware that I could make a request for discovery.

 

If you pm me your phone number, I will help you with this.

I'm not an attorney. Etc, and so on.

I can't help you much with the CA provisions. But NMA can. Their number is 608-849-6000. In CA, for example, radar can't be used on a street where the speed limit wasn't established by the 85th percentile of what all motorists are driving. This may be the case with pacing citations also.

You want to see the back of the officer's ticket (where he might have made notes) as well as any formal written incident report. You also want to see maintenance and certification records for the speedometer in the patrol car. There are many things you should ask for while you're at it.

Every jurisdiction is different, but somewhere on the front of the ticket it should state the means by which your speed was determined. The ticket is a complaint. It needs to name what it is claiming.

 

NOT guilty your honor