1st speeding ticket in SI, NY (70in30)..need advice

[italianboy7]

Ok so this is my first ticket.Im turning on to a block from a left turn, i accelerate and i see the cop car with the two cops outside of the car finishing up ith someone else.They turned around and pulled me over.Said they clocked me at 75 and on the ticket wrote me for 70.But when i turned onto the street its phsically impossible to accelerate up to 70 where they were.Plus they were outside the car so they couldnt of used the radar.I do admit speeding but no more than 50mph.

[Zachp911]

Yeah, cops just make excuses to pull you over.

The other night I was coming home from a friends house and I flew past a cop in the opposite direction and he turned around and pulled me over and said he clocked me at 54mph in a 30mph zone, luckily though he let me off without a ticket and just a warning.

[Chevy4life1985]

Well first off you can always fight the ticket. Second if the cop told u 75 and wrote u up for 70 u might have a case due to inconsistency. Go take pictures where you were to and circle where they were. Tell the truth. Tell them that you were speeding but that you felt you were not going any faster than 50mph. Dress nice and be polite. Oh and lude the new radar guns can accuratly show how fast you are going in an opposite direction and can be used as the car is moving.

[JLad10687]

Ask them when their equipment was last calibrated. If they are over due then that alone might get you off the hook.

[Igovert500]

First off plead not guilty.
When you go and meet with the assistant DA before the trial they will cut you a deal. If the deal is good enough for you, then take it. If not, fight the ticket. You may want to look into getting a lawyer, or coming up with a creative way to prove that your car couldn't have accelerated that quickly.
The thing with the radar gun being calibrated, can work, but you need to be a whole lot more detailed than that...simply asking them in court definantly wont work. You need to request papers, ask the questions correctly, etc...to cast doubt on either the radar gun, or the calibration tool. This isn't as simple as the urban myth makes it seem...so I would stray away from that approach. ESPECIALLY, if as you say, they didn't use radar to catch you.

[ac427cpe]

20 over or 30 over will have the same ticket...

if they didn't use radar, ask them to produce evidence that you were speeding as fast as they claim. there is potentially a lot you could do to fight it. so fight it

[tri-power]

Most police cars in NY have been equipped with camers. Request to have the footage revieved.

[directory]

Originally Posted by italianboy7

Ok so this is my first ticket.Im turning on to a block from a left turn, i accelerate and i see the cop car with the two cops outside of the car finishing up ith someone else.They turned around and pulled me over.Said they clocked me at 75 and on the ticket wrote me for 70.But when i turned onto the street its phsically impossible to accelerate up to 70 where they were.Plus they were outside the car so they couldnt of used the radar.I do admit speeding but no more than 50mph.

some new radar devices will lock on and register the speed, and won't reset until a button is pressed, so they were able to get you.

[lwpat]

In New York a 70 in a 30 is an eight point ticket. If you get 11 points in 18 months they suspend your license. In addition to the major insurance increase you will have the yearly point surcharge to pay for the next three years.

You need to plead not guilty and ask for a deposition. Then you can decide what to do from there.

[Igovert500]

I'm sure he has already dealt with it in the last 2 and a half months. Please check the dates before reviving old threads.