Monday, January 23, 2012

Officers may "guestimate" speed and have PC for a traffic stop

According to this recent Kansas case, an officer may guess that a vehicle is speeding and need not confirm this suspicion with radar or lidar readings. Put another way, if you get stopped, a judge will probably side with the officer no matter how adamant you are that you kept the needle under the limit.

Once again, courts are giving dishonest cops a license to fix bad traffic stops.

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