WHAT ARE THE COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT SPEEDING TICKETS?
People have a lot of misconceptions about speeding tickets. They're caught going 35 in a 25 zone. Their speedometer says that they were going 35. They think that they were going 35. Their attitude is, "Well, the officer's got me dead to rights. I was speeding, I'm guilty, and I might as well just pay the fine." Although you may have thought you committed the offense, with scientific devices such as speedometers, and radar guns, and LIDAR devices (i.e. laser devices), machines can make mistakes. If the officer cites you for a speeding ticket, he's got to do his job, and he's got to make sure his report is filed timely and correctly, and he's got to have done the preliminary and prerequisite tests on the speed measuring device. So even though you may think, "I was speeding and I'm guilty of it," speeding tickets are worth fighting, because the majority of them can be dismissed. In my experience in representing clients, it's well worth spending a couple hundred bucks in order to do so.