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by paul101
Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:45 pm
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: T-boned a limo - optical illusion
Replies: 10
Views: 3097

Re: T-boned a limo - optical illusion

>I don't think the case was dropped because of your illusionary defence. Rather, and >more likely, the limo driver tainted the investigation/witnesses by interfering and >the police /investigation were weak.

Well, I am sure you know more about this than I do, but I don't think that would have been the big issue, because I freely acknowledge I hit ...
by paul101
Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:33 pm
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: T-boned a limo - optical illusion
Replies: 10
Views: 3097

Re: T-boned a limo - optical illusion

>this type of argument will likely be heavily contested by the prosecutor----after all, they don't want precedents of >this type.

I am sure this must have been dealt with somewhere before. I am sure it would not create a precedent.

But if it was going to create a precedent, I think it would make it even more likely that the prosecutor would ...
by paul101
Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:54 pm
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: T-boned a limo - optical illusion
Replies: 10
Views: 3097

Re: T-boned a limo - optical illusion

Prosecutor dropped it.

From the prosecutor's perspective
1. The paralegal I was using use to be an expert witness for the crown. The credentials he was spouting went over my head, but when he was a police officer, he had investigated a somewhat similar incident involving fatalities for a another department. To me that would seem to make him an ...
by paul101
Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:00 pm
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: T-boned a limo - optical illusion
Replies: 10
Views: 3097

Re: T-boned a limo - optical illusion

I ended up going to see a former police officer/paralegal. He seemed familiar with what I was talking about, he had once run into a similar incident when he a crash investigator. He says it will most likely be dropped before trial, but if it goes to trial I should win easily

> If a person is crossing the road and you think you're seeing an oasis ...
by paul101
Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:36 pm
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: T-boned a limo - optical illusion
Replies: 10
Views: 3097

The Illusion

Long and boring description of the illusion

The Limo was a long black limo with an SUV sort of front. The front lights were really odd. Kind of long and thin. There was no side lighting on the limo except some weird sort of LED pin striping on the passenger doors. I have looked at hundreds of limo pictures and cannot find anything to match this ...
by paul101
Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:30 pm
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: T-boned a limo - optical illusion
Replies: 10
Views: 3097

T-boned a limo - optical illusion

I was driving in the county at night and hit a limousine stretched out side ways across the road. The limo had its lights on and had side lighting as well. The police officer charged me with careless driving because it was "fully lit up".
It took me to the next day to figure out what had happened - what I remember made no sense. What I had run ...