PT111
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You can call it a tax or whatever you want to but I was trying to give you a little advice but you don't seem to care for it. If you go before the judge and start arguing that breaking the law is no big deal then you might as well stay home and mail in the $70. That is unless Oregon has the law about speeding that it is not an enforced limit but a suggested limit and exceeding it can be justified. Many years ago that was the case in SC that if you could show that you were not exceeding a safe speed then you could exceed the posted speed limit. That has been changed.
If you claim that the officer made a mistake and you were not the one speeding and state that you were not speeding then you may have a case. However if you go in just to try and claim that technically you can't be charged since someone else could have been riding you bike or that the officer got the wrong bike etc. you have a tough row to how.
I don't care how wrong the speed limit is it is still the legal speed limit and if you exceeded it and admit it then your only option is jury nullification. It's like running a stop sign in the middle of nowhere. You can argue all day that it is wrong to put it there and doesn't do any good but it still says stop.
You can call it a tax or whatever you want to but I was trying to give you a little advice but you don't seem to care for it. If you go before the judge and start arguing that breaking the law is no big deal then you might as well stay home and mail in the $70. That is unless Oregon has the law about speeding that it is not an enforced limit but a suggested limit and exceeding it can be justified. Many years ago that was the case in SC that if you could show that you were not exceeding a safe speed then you could exceed the posted speed limit. That has been changed.
If you claim that the officer made a mistake and you were not the one speeding and state that you were not speeding then you may have a case. However if you go in just to try and claim that technically you can't be charged since someone else could have been riding you bike or that the officer got the wrong bike etc. you have a tough row to how.
I don't care how wrong the speed limit is it is still the legal speed limit and if you exceeded it and admit it then your only option is jury nullification. It's like running a stop sign in the middle of nowhere. You can argue all day that it is wrong to put it there and doesn't do any good but it still says stop.