I went to traffic court today, and the officer showed up so I had a trial. It's very strange, but the court actually requires the defendant to show up at 8:00am, but the officer has until 11:00 to show up. My guy was there in the morning, apparently loaded with a bunch of trials. I was stopped for doing 90 on the toll road, and I know that I was not going that fast. I actually set about figuring out how I could prove that I wasn't. Things couldn't have gone better for me - the officer was wrong about how fast he stated I was going, he was wrong about what lane I was in, he was wrong about where I was in relation to his car when he "clocked" me. And - when I mentioned all of these things he agreed with me! So then, I pulled up some sattelite pictures showing that his location was in fact the WORST position for visibility on the entire 91 freeway. Which again, the officer agreed with. I did some basic math and showed that the officer had less than 2 1/2 seconds to actually do all the things he said he did - 1) witness a speeding car, 2) make a visual estimate of my speed, 3) get a radar reading, 4) get a radar "lock" on my car. And this is all assuming that I wasn't already braking when I turned the corner prior to the officer being able to even begin making an assessment - which I was. Not only that, I had accellerated to avoid an accident with a merging car, with no other option because I had a car in my other adjacent lane and was being tailgated. Then I brought up the fact that there is conflicting radar less than 500 feet away, and 6 lanes of traffic to confuse the radar. And in fact, the officer agreed with all of my assessments. The judge, however... didn't like the math, and stated "there are too many suppositions in your statement." Guilty. However, one thing I did discover - if you plead guilty in Orange County, CA, they apply a mandatory trippling of the fine ($100 statutory fine = $300). If you are found guilty, no such trippling of the fine. I cannot think of a situation where things could go better - an officer that agrees to everything I say, who also makes wrong statements at trial; mathematical logic proving that an accurate assessment of speed wasn't possible; and overhead sattelite pictures to boot. If that doesn't get you out of a ticket, I don't know what would!