Comment · Tue, September 4, 2012
Cop claimed aggressive youth who swung at him had reached for his gun, at which point he fired his gun at the youth in self defense. Newly released surveillance footage.. shows cop running up behind the youth, then smashing him in the head with his gun in a surprise attack...
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lessnonymous · 1 points
What fucked up shit of a place allows this to be used as evidence?? I can understand some smart cop could use it to detect possible speeding and then use a real method to accurately prove his case, but what dumb arse court system wouldn't throw this shit out on laughable stupidity?
"Your honor, in my trained estimate, the poles are 84m apart. I watched in my rearview and in my trained estimate it took him 5.4 seconds to pass from one to the next. I'm also trained to do math in my head so it's obvious that 1000/84=11.904762, multiply that by 5.4 and he was clearly going 64.285715km/h. IN MY HEAD WHILE DRIVING AND WATCHING MY REARVIEW. "
In my scenario, if he was slightly out on any estimate, it makes a big difference. Can't estimate to the sub second then I was between 5 and 6, that is I was between ~59 and ~71km/h. That's a huge difference simply for misestimating a half second!
How does a judge not throw this shit out and laugh at the cop? How does a jury not find reasonable doubt?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
It was a civil violation, so they only have to prove 51% that I was most likely speeding. The officer was rated on visual estimation, and recently renewed his certification. So his testimony was enough for the judge to say that I was speeding. There was no jury, and it's not like a criminal trial where they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Civil is much easier to get a conviction due to that. It's totally BS, but technically within the law. He said that he cross referenced his estimations with his own speedometer. He gave a very convincing show in court. I was young, and extremely flustered that this was happening. I probably could have put up a better defense, but I didn't know I had to. I thought it was ridiculous!