IMO it honestly is not worth fighting. I seriously would not waste your time, lol. The judge is going to believe the cop because WHY would he be lying about you speeding in a school zone? I'm not saying he didn't lie about it, but the judge is much more likely to believe the cop. If people could get away with it, judges would have a whole slew of people in there saying oh no I wasn't speeding or doing this or that, the cop was lying and blah blah blah. It's sad, but the judge is much more likely to take the cops word over just some "random citizen" who wants to get out of a ticket
And trust me, the cop WILL show up in court
I hope that didn't sound rude because thats not how I mean it, but I'm just telling you what the judge will be thinking. And I totally believe you when you say you weren't speeding - but it's
your word against a
police officers. A similar thing happened to me where I was going through a yellow light. Well, just as I was DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH the light - it turned red. Mind you I know because I looked directly at it as I SAW the cop parked, just waiting to give someone a ticket. Well what do ya know
That someone was me, lol. I actually asked him how I could possibly be pulled over for that when the light turned red AFTER I was already directly underneath the thing. I mean my God, what did he want me to do, stop dead smack in the middle of an intersection?
Anyway he claimed that the light was red as I was GOING THROUGH it, but I had 3 other people in the car with me at the time and they ALL said that it sooooo was not red when I went through it, honest to God it wasn't. There is just NO WAY. It only turned red as my car was underneath the traffic light and I would have SURELY got pulled over if I would have stopped right there in the middle of an intersection - that would have caused a HUGE problem lol. Anyway, basically the cop had been sitting there parked just waiting to give someone a ticket - and at the spur of the moment he saw me go through - and said, ahhh....why not?
He was obviously just too excited about handing out a freaking ticket
and pulled me over right away anyway. So anyway, I know good and well he was wrong to give me a ticket that day, but I was not about to waste my time fighting it in court. After all, it was my word against his and SERIOUSLY - who are they more likely to believe
I mean REALLY. I just paid the stupid thing (as p!ssed as I was about it) and got it over and done with and out of the way
P.S. - Why don't you just call and tell them that you want to take defensive driving and it will reduce the price of your ticket dramatically
That's what my hubby did when he got a speeding ticket - it's a HECK of a lot easier than going to court and nothing goes on your driving record