just think what this does to the traffic cameras!
not just ANY representative from the traffic camera company will do. you have to have IN court during trial the actual exact person who looked at the picture and analized the image and issued the citation.
no more guilty via representative witness.
If you own any stock in the companies that make traffic cams, now would be a good time to sell.
But good luck finding a sucker to buy it.
not just ANY representative from the traffic camera company will do. you have to have IN court during trial the actual exact person who looked at the picture and analized the image and issued the citation.
no more guilty via representative witness.~ longtermmemmory
awsome!!
Probably not much. Tickets issued from traffic cameras are a civil, not a criminal, matter.
More specifically, it would not apply at all because the decision only applies to criminal, not civil, trials. The decision was based on the 6th amendment’s Confrontation Clause which applies to criminal prosecutions .I browsed the decision and it appears to be confined to criminal, not civil, law.
JUSTICE GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to all but Part IV and footnote 6. The Confrontation Clause, the opinion concludes, does not permit the prosecution to introduce a forensic laboratory report containing a testimonial certification, made in order to prove a fact at a criminal trial, through the in-court testimony of an analyst who did not sign the certification or personally perform or observe the performance of the test reported in the certification.
The accused’s right is to be confronted with the analyst who made the certification, unless that analyst is unavailable at trial, and the accused had an opportunity, pretrial, to cross-examine that particular scientist.
Probably won’t apply. Traffic tickets are usually civil. DUI is criminal.
Unfortunately, some or many states (not sure how many) have claimed that red light camera citations are a civil matter, on the idiot notion that they are dealing with property (the car) and not a person (the driver).
Unfortunately, traffic camera tickets usually fall into the civil court arena instead of criminal court. They've basically bypassed the criminal aspects of traffic violations in favor of revenue enhancement. Anyway, I don't think that this ruling has an effect on such situations. May be wrong though.