what’s likely to happen in court if given a speed ticket for doing 112 mph in a 65 mph in New jersey?
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at
9:26 pm
The officer claimed I was doing 112 mph on the New york - new jersey turnpike which has a speed limit of 65 mph. This happened in MT laurel NJ.Do you think I would need an attorney and what are the benefits of one in this case?
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Well you will definitely lose your license for a while. And at this point they should, you don’t need to be on the road. A police officer speed meter isn’t always accurate but you must have been going pretty close to that number. Now if he said you was doing 70 mph in the 65 mph than you could have possible try to fight it. But you won’t be able to fight this one. You can always get a lawyer but it will probably be a waste of your money. Now the defense attorney won’t tell you that because he wants your money but I guarantee you, he or she won’t make you any promises.
There have been circumstances where the speed meter can give the wrong reading but since you were on the turnpike, that circumstances wouldn’t be involved and you won’t even be able to use it as a defense. I will not get into details with it because it is not needed.
Next time slow down and do the speed limit, cops don’t mind a few miles over but make sure you are not just passing traffic because than that would be obvious.
Another note, speeding only gets you to your destination only a couple of seconds faster. Those couple seconds isn’t worth the lost of your life nor someone else on the road.
States didn’t make speed limits to make people life miserable, they did it to protect.
Don’t bother with an attorney…you’ll lose. You’ll probably have your license suspended and look at a driving to endanger charge.
It might keep you out of jail ’cause that is what you’re looking at.
A suspension is likely, whether or not you have an attorney. You might be able to change the suspension with a mandated driver course, that is up to the judge. I managed to avoid the suspension with the course. Good Luck.
If he has no proof of you doing it the charges should be dropped.
You will loose this case, unless you were talking your dying grandma to the hospital. You will need a lawyer, if you want any chance of anything.
A lawyer would be good. Might keep you out of jail.
However, unless you had significant extenuating circumstances (your appendix had ruptured and you were en route to the hospital), you’re looking at pretty serious trouble.