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To: Freedom4US
It is a "high profile" case now - seems to me that an example needs to be set here, for other motorists, particularly the organ donor set with high powered crotch rockets. Getting out of the ticket altogether sends the wrong message in my opinion. People need to understand the law applies to them in both spirit and letter, not a game to be played and weaseled out of.

The "organ donor" bunch will not be dissuaded by any legal example. The court would better protect both the letter and spirit of the law by dismissing any charges based on any police officer's observations which are demonstrably false.

Usually, more than one citation is issued in such a case. If they can't nail the kid on the speeding charge, they'll get him on "unsafe operation", or other similar charge.

33 posted on 10/26/2004 7:23:44 AM PDT by Cloud William (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Cloud William

That's kind of my point... A judge should have wide discretion in sentencing. This guy can hardly plead "not guilty" to what is at least unsafe or reckless operation towards everyone else on the road, so yank his license for that, seems simple enough to me. Again I love to drive fast, but there have been far too many innocents who have had their lives ruined by idiots out on the road hotrodding or crotchrocketing. If they only hurt themselves, I could live with that, sort of.


36 posted on 10/26/2004 11:14:39 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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