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To: Spackidagoosh

I think that these cameras raise due process questions.

There is no police officer there to give you the ticket, and no way to prove that the light actually was red when you went through it. Moreover, if you run a red light in a buddy's car you get the ticket, but under this scenario a ticket gets sent to the registered owner's legal address a few days later, and he is responsible for the ticket.


9 posted on 07/02/2004 8:21:19 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: Piranha
I think that these cameras raise due process questions.

I would agree, but the response that you get in Maryland is that, technically, you aren't being charged with a moving violation. What they ARE charging you with is akin to a parking ticket, which as we know goes to the registered owner of the vehicle. I think that that answer is BS, but I don't think that you'd get a judge to rule in your favor.

24 posted on 07/02/2004 8:33:20 AM PDT by Tallguy (Liberals make my head hurt...)
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To: Piranha
he is responsible for the ticket

I don't think that's necessarily so. My daughter rented a car in Southern California; her husband was driving and got his picture taken. They sent the ticket to my daughter, who sent it back declaring she was not the driver. They did, however, ask her who the driver was. She told them and they sent the ticket to her husband who paid it.

31 posted on 07/02/2004 8:49:21 AM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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