The choice made between us was to face the judge and 'fess up for my sins. (I drive waaayyy too fast on back roads to get home, 64 in a 45 too fast. Funny thing was the whole ride there (previous to the ticketing) I knew I was going to get pulled over. I could feel it. It was a premonition I chose to ignore because how could I ever foresee something like that?)
Advice from my dad concerning the trial is scrawled all over the summons:
- plead guilty with an explanation, asking for probation before judgement
- " My dad is a deputy commander in Montgomery County and I'm embarrassed to say..."
- i was careless, not proud, should know better, speeding is dangerous
- ramifications of my actions, the damage speeding costs
- turning point in my life, graduation from college, paying my own insurance
- don't try to "sex up" the judge with the way that i dress
- have confidence, be mature, honest, and speak from the heart
the verdict? NOT GUILTY.
the cop didn't show. bonus, the judge was a woman.
although there was an officer there whose dock was really unscrupulous. all the speeding tickets he gave were for going 67 in a 40. all of them. real strange, don't you think? like he accidentally locked in the speed (which is right next to the trigger on the radar gun)? some unfortunate man with a wife and kid tried to argue this and failed and was ultimately fined $135 (which he had to defer) after much argument over the truth of the cops statement about checking the functionality of equipment. i don't know what area he was running this radar in, but almost everyone on his dock was lower income and all of them had to pay $135...
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