{"id":4026,"date":"2010-06-08T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2010-06-08T07:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:33:47","slug":"attention-drivers-ohio-police-can-now-just-estimate-your-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/attention-drivers-ohio-police-can-now-just-estimate-your-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention drivers: Ohio police can now just “estimate” your speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . and then write you a ticket<\/a> based on their estimate, no further proof needed:<\/p>\n

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Police don’t need radar to cite you for speeding.<\/p>\n

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning that an officer trained to estimate speed by sight doesn’t need an electronic gauge to catch speeders.<\/p>\n

The 5-1 ruling was a defeat for 27-year-old Akron-area motorist Mark W. Jenney and speeders across the state. Jenney had challenged a visual speed estimate by a Copley police officer, but a trial court and the 9th District Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, Ohio drivers, expect to see your state assess a lot more speeding tickets (a nice form of revenue for the depleted state coffers), now that the police have been given carte blanche. There’s little reason for them not to treat this as a newly imposed tax on drivers: no evidence is required, other than the officer’s estimate, and the court clearly isn’t too worried about the legal implications of this. <\/p>\n

As Eric Moretti<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

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Hey \u201cSupreme Court Justices\u201d why don\u2019t you guys get this part of what laws are supposed to do through your thick skulls. It\u2019s safe to say that officers might be trained to identify speeds, and they might even be great at it — but it blasts the notion of burden of proof being on the state out of the water. You didn\u2019t just blast it out, you nuked that fish to dry land. There is no factual evidence when officers have the ability to do this, \u201cI think you were going 120 mph.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where is the public recourse for police officers who abuse their abilities? We have to take an officer\u2019s (the state) word that we committed a crime? Did you guys even go to law school?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . and then write you a ticket based on their estimate, no further proof needed: Police don’t need radar to cite you for speeding. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning that an officer trained to estimate speed by sight doesn’t need an electronic gauge to catch speeders. The 5-1 ruling was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[111,343,450,98],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-ohio","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-12W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}