Speeding teen beats charges
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How convenient for her...
When society as a whole starts talking about responsibilities INSTEAD of rights...coolcat said:
Unfortunately... not bloody likely. We are a nation of whiners (for the most part...)This going to happen anytime soon?
His defense was that there was no possible way the cop could see his plate, and for a car traveling 240km by the time the cop turned around he would have had to lose sight of him.
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with a similar looking car basically. It took 2-4 KM before he caught up to him.
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with a similar looking car basically. It took 2-4 KM before he caught up to him.
well if there is no integrity of evidence then there is no conviction. That is the law. It was foolish, no doubt but no one was hurt in the end.
That's just pure bullshit. Allowing a teen to escape with a 85 $ charge while driving 158kmph over the limit.
Thats just ridiculous. So dad did have connections after all.
Thats just ridiculous. So dad did have connections after all.
The moral of this story is if you're going to speed, make sure you speed really fast, don't just go 20, 30, 40 or even 50 km over the limit, make sure you speed well over 150 km over the limit so the cop can't see your plate.
It's always amused me, and not in a good way, that the strategy of guilty parties in this country is to sit down with their lawyers, admit that they broke the law and got caught, but let's look at how we can fiind loop holes in the law so we can get the guilty party off scott free. It's a game to most lawyers even though they know the party they represent is guilty as sin. After all, law breakers do have rights you know, the right to get away with breakinng the law if they have a sharp lawyer. Absurd.
Unfortunately that is what typically happens more often than not. Most teenagers (indeed most of us period) do not have the skills of race car drivers, and end up seriously injured or killed when they drive at such speeds.
Further, "having beaten the rap" is dear old dad going to allow his son to drive again for the period of time his suspension would have run?
It leads to unpleasant outcomes like this one, and worse. However it's not absurd, there is a point to it: It keeps the police and the crown honest. If you start allowing corrupt evidence in trials of those you know are guilty, what's to stop the government from bringing trumped up charges against political enemies based on fake evidence?
So if you got any ticket for any reason whatsoever, you'd simply have the stones to plead guilty & not fight it? Are you suggesting that everyone who gets a ticket or get charged with any offense just lay down & plead guilty and take their medicine like a man?
And what if you actually didn't do the act of which you were charged? Wouldn't you want to fight it? Or, according to your logic, you should just admit that you did it because you were charged - which means you were obviously guilty - and accept your sentence.
And by the way, the kid may have been speeding like an idiot, but he most certainly wasn't 'guilty' or was a 'law-breaker' because there wasn't a conviction. What the law determined & what factually happened are 2 separate things.
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Further to what Fuji, wrote, when/if there is a loophole in the law it is the duty of the legislative branch to correct the loophole, not for the courts to ignore it.
