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Speed ticket entrapment? ''Police car in plain view'' law?

I was recently stopped in springfield, MO (Greene County) for speeding (60 in a 40). Pretty routine except the cop that stopped me was not visible at all to traffic. The road that he was parked on the side of was perpendicular to the road I was traveling on. My question is: Dont police officers have to be in plain sight w/ parking lights on in order for them to be able to legally stop someone? I was under the impression that they had to be in plain view? This officer was parked so deep inside that street he was radaring from that you could only see him once you actually were even with the street he was parked on.

I even confronted him about it when he stopped me, surprisingly on my way back through the same street he had actually pulled up closer to the street I traveled on so that he was actually visible to the traffic lane I was traveling on when I received my ticket. By law, aren't officers required to be in plain sight, not hiding in some street behind buildings when they stop you for speeding? I mean there was absolutely no way to see this cop until you got up right to the street he was parked on... Hopefully someone can answer my question as I thought this was reffered to as ''entrapment''.???

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