About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

11 Resource News 19 (1986-1987)
Fighting a Traffic Ticket

handle is hein.journals/lanow11 and id is 275 raw text is: OQkK FEV IEW by Paul Atkinson Fighting a You're cruising down hints 0 Highway 2. Your favorite of figh tape is in the cassette. traffic The sun has just gone down. Brian I It's Sunday night and you're heading home after a great weekend in the mountains. Red and blue lights pop to life from a car coming up fast behind you. The startling whine of a siren breaks your dream. By reflex, you touch the brakes. You glance down at the speedometer. You couldn't have been speeding. Why are you being pulled over? The police officer tells you his radar locked you in at 20 kilometers over the limit. You can't believe it, but what are you going to do? You're not going to hire some expensive Perry Mason type to fight a $30 ticket. Then again, you'll lose points. You've already lost a few the past couple of years. Your insurance company may raise the rates if you lose any more points. Think you could fight the ticket yourself in court? What kind of evidence could you get together? Is it really just your word against that of the police officer? Are you dead meat because they used radar? How serious is this? Should you get a lawyer? You may find some helpful Traffic n the practicalities c ting provincial ( tickets in a book by awrie and Ian McLean o Ticket alled, Pull Over, Please Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1985). Brian Lawrie was a police fficer for 15 years and now (continued on page 30) ____________________________________________________________________________1J Resource News/May 1987 19

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most