Ontario Highway Traffic Act

I just want to add that I completely disagree with absolute liability offences.

The Ministry and Police talk about safety and speeding together all the time, however when charged with speeding you are not given the opportunity to prove whether you were driving safely or causing some kind of danger to others. If I am driving on the 401 going 130km ...

The difference is that we are talking about an ABSOLUTE LIABILITY speeding offence... there is no acceptable reasons why you did it (unless your life was in danger). Either yes you were speeding or no you were not speeding. End of story.

Therefore any testimony that suggests you were speeding, even 1km/h over, is testimony against yourself and you ...

Well you are welcome to try and I hope you succeed.

I will be surprised if you succeed, but I still hope you can do it.

If you admit to speeding (even only 59) and the officer says you were going 72 then most likely you will get the 72 charge. If you did not testify at all, you would still get the 72 charge but you saying you were speeding just helps their case.

Best case is the JP drops it to the 59 but I have been to court enough times and never seen them do that ...

Yes they usually black out stuff not related to your incident.

Here is an interesting side note... how does he know you were doing 80 to 85 when you went by him at the stop sign? At a 90 degree angle (with head facing straight ahead) the radar will read 0.

Is this just officers estimation of your speed as you passed in front of him?

The head of the radar unit must be mounted somewhere on the vehicle for ...

If the charge indeed does say 75 in a 50, and the set fine is incorrect, then this is a fatal error! I am not sure what the correct set fine for 25 over is, but if it is not $37.50 then it is a fatal error. Congratulations.

So if it is a fatal error, then do not do anything. Do not mail the ticket in and do not choose an option on the back and do ...

An honest prosecutor will tell you whether or not their witnesses are there. Some prosecutors though, may not tell you, and will try to convince you to take the deal.

You can also ask them directly if their witnesses are if they do not say anything specific about it, but they may or may not tell you. And they do not have to tell you.

If the ...

Good question.

But I have no idea

You would need a technical expert in radar to answer that question.

Yes it is you in front of the Judge asking for a new trial.

Yes the crown will be there to possibly object. They may not object though.

Okay well you sort of have it sorted out! I would make sure you take any paperwork you got from clerk with you on Dec 8 as it will all be very confusing.

The officer has 6 months to issue a ticket, and a summons is a common way to do that, so yes they can do that and there is nothing wrong with it.

It needs to be filed with the clerk of the court within 7 days. That has nothing to do with when it will show up on their website.

Usually I call the Clerk on about day 10 to see if it has been filed yet.

Great news!

Did you show up for trial and they dropped them right away or did you talk to prosecutor and they dropped them or did you proceed to trial and win? What happened? Details please.

Well I guess you have to get the appeal judge to grant a re-trial first before any of this matters!

But I am similar in that I will go to court and fight everything to the bitter end because if you do not fight it then you are found guilty for sure!

Why did you have to pay $10 for manual? Was that on Scribd site? You can UPLOAD some kind of document and then download for free.

You will have very hard time proving anything you say (which some of it seems valid). The JP will pretty take anything the officer says as "truth" over anything you say. With the right cross-examination questions, you ...