thanks for the inquiry with the judge friend. :icon14:tnf wrote:You do have some recourse maybe against the clerical error bit. The cop was just following protocol except maybe for the handcuffs too tight..you are a pretty skinny guy, no? maybe he was afraid of you being able to slip out of them and shiv him in the side of the head or something....:icon32:
And how was the speeding bullshit? Usually that is pretty cut and dry...
edit: nvm, you apparently have talked with your lawyer.
I would think that maybe some sort of civil suit, because of tort law or whatever it is that goes something like 'but for the action of so and so person, this thing wouldn't have happened to me...' or something like that if I remember it right from judge judy. my friend is currently running for a judge position here, i'm going to ask him if he's ever heard of anyone winning any type of settlement for a clerical error resulting in improsonment/lost wages/etc.
oh, and the speeding was bullshit because he supposedly got me with radar from an almost perfect perpendicular angle as we were both approaching a T-Intersection. (i was on the straight through)
Unless he has some uber-powerful radar gun which can penetrate the house on the corner without setting off my detector... Or physics has changed in the last few years; It's virtually impossible for him to have gotten a reading at all, let alone something remotely accurate.
Truth of that matter however, is i'm not even sure if I was speeding. if I had to guess i'd say i may have been doing 38-ish in a 30; he wrote me for 42. But I'd just stopped at BK for breakfast and was reaching into the pasenger seat to unwrap my completely unhealthy nosh; so my usual glances for the speed-o were directed elsewhere at the time.
In that situation: him eye-balling my speed... and me not knowing either. i think i deserve the benefit of the doubt; but since the burden of proof in this country rests on the shoulders of the accused... you never know.
At any rate, my lawyer wasn't worried at all about making either chrage dissapear... I just have to eat the cost and the huge inconvienence, and the "interesting" experience of having all my freedoms stripped away for a day.
I still blame nixon for the status quo... ever since the drug war started this country has been turing into a police state. It's not exactly martial law... but any poice that wants to abuse his power can find an excuse to hassle pretty much anyone anytime.
the worst part are those plastic seats in the back of the car so the cuffs dig into your wrists from behind your back. At least you were solo, I've shared the seat with 2 other guys. That's hell.