Isn’t the best left in civil court, than criminal court?
That’s my take. I also thought it was already a crime to release private pictures like that without a waiver.
Traffic ticket cases are tried as criminal matters.
Being a defendant in a traffic case that I took to trial, I have a few comments:
1. Jurors are mostly stupid/ignorant about the constitution.
2. Texas Municipal Courts are corrupt as hell. Nothing but revenue generators.
3. Caught the judge and prosecutor lying to me, and then it was game on. Despite Virtually every possible violation of my constitutional rights to due process. The lapdog jurors found me guilty of both alleged violations. However, the jury imposed fines of well less than half if I had not gone to trial.
4. Judge didn’t enter the judgment while I was there, and there is no final verdict until the judgment is entered in the presence of the accused. The court clerk mailed copies of the judgments, and asked me to sign them and mail them back. That wasn’t going to happen.
5. Next time I went to the courthouse to get copies of some documents, the judge’s assistant slid the same documents in front of me in an attempt to get me to sign them. The conversation went like this:
Me: You want me to sign these documents?
Clerk: If you would.
Me: You don’t really think I’m going to sign them, do you?
Clerk: Not really.
Me: You tell that bitch (the judge), that if she wants me to sign them, the Prosecutor is going to have to cite me in for a hearing.
Haven’t heard from them since.