{"id":8956,"date":"2011-04-22T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:17:17","slug":"dc-business-owner-successfully-fights-photo-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/dc-business-owner-successfully-fights-photo-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"DC business owner successfully fights photo tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/20\/business-owner-casts-reasonable-doubt-on-accuracy-\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>, which shows that you sometimes <em>can<\/em> fight speed camera tickets:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Five times and counting before three different judges, the Prince George\u2019s County business owner has used a computer and a calculation to cast reasonable doubt on the reliability of the soulless traffic enforcers.<\/p>\n<p>After a judge threw out two of his tickets Wednesday, Mr. Foreman said he is confident he has exposed systemic inaccuracies in the systems that generate millions of dollars a year for town, city and county governments.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t the only one to employ the defense Wednesday. Two other men were found not guilty of speeding offenses before a Hyattsville District judge during the same court session using the same technique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve produced an elegant defense and I\u2019m sufficiently doubtful,\u201d Judge Mark T. O\u2019Brien said to William Adams, after hearing evidence that his Subaru was traveling below the 35-mph limit &#8211; and not 50 mph as the ticket indicated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon sent me this link, which shows that you sometimes can fight speed camera tickets: Five times and counting before three different judges, the Prince George\u2019s County business owner has used a computer and a calculation to cast reasonable doubt on the reliability of the soulless traffic enforcers. After a judge threw out two of [&hellip;]<\/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":[8,9,15],"tags":[111,343],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-technology","tag-cars","tag-crimeandpunishment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","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=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}