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Interesting.... What if you can establish there is no way that an officer can have reasonably estimated speed or come to suspect speeding in the first place? Today I observed cars being pulled to the side for speeding as they were coming through an underpass.

I don't know how successful you will be going down that road. Lasers have scopes on them and the officer selects a specific vehicle (presumably one he suspects is speeding) aims the laser at and takes a reading. I would presume the scope can be used to extend the officers ability to see.

Perhaps you would get better help if you framed your questions a bit better. What exactly are you trying to get at?

I would request a trial, and request the officer attend trial on the form. Online services such as fightmytickets.ca charges $12 to file this paperwork for you saving you a lot of time and hassle.

A minor misspelling is no big deal. Do you want to fight this ticket or just get a reduced fine? Either way request a trial review the disclosure first, even if the case against you is solid the officer might not be at trial and you get off. If he's there you will more than likely be offered a reduced charge and fine in exchange for pleading guilty.

As I already stated: requesting the trial gives you the benefit of reviewing the officers copy of the ticket via disclosure just to make sure the section is incorrect. To force the fatal error at this point is simple: do not show on your court date.

The prosecutor and JP will be well aware on what the standard of proof required to support a conviction. If the note simply said you had an isolated case of Vasavagul then it would be helpful to your case to present information on the condition and its sympthoms focusing on how it caused you to lose control of the motor vehicle you were driving ...

Pay the outstanding ticket right away at the courthouse and the reinstatement fee for the license to get it back and then renew your sticker. Go to court on the day of your summons and ask for a deal on the 2 tickets you just received saying you completely forgot about the 1st ticket to renew the plates and apologize should be enough to get them to ...

Yes, that would be a fatal error but you would have to force it. I'd request a trial to get the officer's copy of the ticket in the disclosure just to make sure. If it is for sure the wrong section then don't attend trial to force the fatal error.

This happens all the time. I don't see any professional misconduct here if you led her to believe that you have a drinking problem. The doctor was required by law to report you to the MTO, they review the information and make a decision. Some doctors will give you a heads up, others prefer not to risk a confrontation. I know what you are saying ...

The more rockets you have on your record the less likely you will be offered a 0 points deal, but that being said the more convictions caused by rockets (even 0 point ones) the less likely your friend will be insurable and that is tantamount to losing your license.

I would try getting it cancelled based on the fact that he has a permit even though he is sure the car was never there. The cancellation guidelines don't seem to address this but it's worth a try:

http://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Revenue%20Services/Tickets/Files/pdf/C/cancellation_guidelines.pdf

If that doesn't work head to trial and ...

+1 Stanton

$300 insurance, and if an officer sees you commit 3 HTA infractions he cuts you a break on the spot to a bylaw infraction? Okay everyone, time to move to London!

I don't think I would not aggressively fight this ticket and I strongly believe you should aggressively fight every ticket. Weigh how little you pay for insurance and the ...

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I have a feeling even if you can get the officer to admit that he was in Ontario observing cars (for expired plates or mechanical defects) that were in Ontario that had undoubtedly just crossed in from Quebec only seconds before, the prosecutor will still likely be able to prove that you committed an offence in Quebec because of the nature of ...

I don't think the location on the ticket will matter so much since he saw you driving from Quebec into Ontario, his decision to perform an inspection was based on him observing the car in Quebec (where you were under his jurisdiction).

Officers routinely stop and ticket drivers that have crossed provincial borders for offences that were committed ...

You are going to have to prove that a doctor was able to diagnose you with medical condition that you didn't previously know about and that condition caused you to faint. Knowledge that you could be susceptible to fainting spells for whatever reason and decided to drive anyway will be very damaging your argument as it is not supported by the cases ...

I would choose trial option.

1 & 2) Personally I think you should fight every ticket. Worst case scenario you are convicted which is the same as pleading guilty. Best case scenario you get off for any number of reasons. Either way you will have to invest time and effort that you will never get back. Do some research in the forum to learn a bit.

3) Yes if you roll over and ...

I'm betting on someone had a few too many and decided a fail to remain was better than DUI.
You can report the accident at a collision reporting centre (I believe you have 48 hours). If you both left TTC property there is a good chance they may have been caught on camera at some point before the incident.

As far as what should you have done: I ...

For all intensive purposes the only defense to this charge is to convince the JP that you were in fact wearing your seat belt (everything else is irrelevant).

In my personal experience most officers are pragmatic and will not ticket for less than 15 or under. Then again I've seen tickets 8 over. Almost all tickets that I have come across that are for 15 over were roadside reductions.

It will show what you plead to. They can't find out from an abstract the original charge but keep in mind that conviction for 15 over the limit implies that you were given a break by the officer on the scene or worked out something with the prosecutor. So if they care enough to ask you how fast you were going and you say 15 over I would think you ...

I'm guessing he was pulling over multiple people at the same time?

I would ignore the ticket and appeal any default conviction based on the ticket you were given was not yours. I wouldn't be surprised if you have the officer come serve you with the correct ticket (they have 6 months to do this). If this happens I would still exploit the fact that ...

I have a feeling the officer would be more interested in helping and then ticketing the guy who spun out than you.

Cocky... while you're at it go after them for the towing charges...

Decatur wrote:I don't see that the OP mentioned any error. Just asking about crossing the border.

It's probably an error of some kind because this is copy/paste from part of one of my posts in another thread.

I would request the trial for this charge.

I have seen the prosecutor offer everyone $175 fine if they agreed to plead guilty and the JP reduce it in the interest of "fairness" to $125 for everyone regardless of circumstance. One person who was elderly was not fined at all.

I have also seen the prosecutor not have the photos with them and ...

This is so minor that I personally would not take a no 0 point deals offered and go straight to trial. If you really didn't do go to court and tell the truth. When you testify tell them you take that way to work every day and that you always go out of your way to take this route because you are aware that it is illegal to make that turn and do not ...

Maybe he already got it and is out belt shopping?

Since it came up, I wonder if the error the officer made could be exploited to creating sufficient reasonable doubt to support the conviction?