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Ohio Supreme Court: Sure, Cops Can Guess How Fast Youre Going And Ticket You.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d84_1275671941
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Officers Can Just Guess How Fast Youre Going
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"In what has to be one of the biggest violations of common sense and burden of proof in motoring news this year, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that officers can visually estimate how fast a person is driving and give them a ticket for it.
Thanks Ohio Supreme Court for giving cops the green light to make up speeding tickets.
Supreme Court Justice Maureen OConnor said Rational triers of fact could find a police officers testimony regarding his unaided visual estimation of a vehicles speed, when supported by evidence that the officer is trained, certified by (the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy) or a similar organization, and experienced in making such estimations, sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the defendants speed. Independent verification of the vehicles speed is not necessary to support a conviction for speeding.
Hey Supreme Court Justices why dont you guys get this part of what laws are supposed to do through your thick skulls. Its safe to say that officers might be trained to identify speeds, and they might even be great at it but it blasts the notion of burden of proof being on the state out of the water. You didnt just blast it out, you nuked that fish to dry land. There is no factual evidence when officers have the ability to do this, I think you were going 120 mph.
Where is the public recourse for police officers who abuse their abilities? We have to take an officers (the state) word that we committed a crime? Did you guys even go to law school?"
They must be joking. Right? :nuts:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d84_1275671941
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Officers Can Just Guess How Fast Youre Going
<broken link removed>
"In what has to be one of the biggest violations of common sense and burden of proof in motoring news this year, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that officers can visually estimate how fast a person is driving and give them a ticket for it.
Thanks Ohio Supreme Court for giving cops the green light to make up speeding tickets.
Supreme Court Justice Maureen OConnor said Rational triers of fact could find a police officers testimony regarding his unaided visual estimation of a vehicles speed, when supported by evidence that the officer is trained, certified by (the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy) or a similar organization, and experienced in making such estimations, sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the defendants speed. Independent verification of the vehicles speed is not necessary to support a conviction for speeding.
Hey Supreme Court Justices why dont you guys get this part of what laws are supposed to do through your thick skulls. Its safe to say that officers might be trained to identify speeds, and they might even be great at it but it blasts the notion of burden of proof being on the state out of the water. You didnt just blast it out, you nuked that fish to dry land. There is no factual evidence when officers have the ability to do this, I think you were going 120 mph.
Where is the public recourse for police officers who abuse their abilities? We have to take an officers (the state) word that we committed a crime? Did you guys even go to law school?"
They must be joking. Right? :nuts: