Legal Question in Traffic Law in Idaho
tickets without signatures
If an Idaho police officer serves you a speeding ticket for 100 in a 75 mph area, and doesn't ask for or recieve your signature on anything, is the ticket legal?
The officer also admitted using radar ''5-miles down the road'' to determine speed, but my radar detector never went off, and other cars were going the same speed I was, the other cars were also in close proximity to me. I wasn't speeding.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: tickets without signatures
Signing the ticket is just your promise to appear in the court between the dates set forth in the ticket. The ticket is technically legal.
the other facts you set forth in your question are all defenses to the ticket by showing that you weren't speeding, that if the officer had been using radar that your detector would have gone off, etc. However on the radar issue you would have to have someone from the company or some other expert in this area testify that the detector was woeking properly, that it would have picked up the police's radar if the police were using it, etc.
The fact that you were going the same speed is a possible defense called selective prosecution where the police singled you out for an impermissible reason.
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