LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Contesting court decision

This was my arguments to the judge as to why my ticket should have been dismissed. I was charged with crossing a double yellow line and no insurance.

If it would please the court I would like to have my ticket dismissed on several grounds:

◊I do have insurance and I found the insurance paper in the car when I got home. I never drive without insurance. I have four vehicles and they are all insured.

◊My ticket is illegible.

◊I was told that I was to be tried at 1 p.m. and it is after that now. So, if this court system goes by the written law, then I should have my case dismissed because my trial was not held at exactly 1 p.m. says.

◊ The court should not find someone guilty if evidence was collected by an officer while the officer was breaking the law himself. The officer crossed the double yellow lie to pursue me in order to give me a ticket for the same offense that I am accused of doing.

We cannot have officers enforcing the law while in the commission of breaking the law.

◊A judge should recluse himself if his brother is on trial or is a witness. Since the entire law enforcement system is made up of a “brotherhood” of judges, lawyer, prosecutors, and police officers, then that in itself makes these entire proceedings invalid.

◊Finally, if this case is not thrown out for any of the before mentionedreasons then my question for the court is: Without admitting guilt, can a person legally pass someone else on a double yellow line if they are doing it to avoid hitting them from behind? If the lead car appears to have almost died and they almost rear-end them, to avoid hitting the lead car, they go around them instead of hitting the breaks and sliding into them. These are extenuating circumstances that I ask the court to take into consideration.

◊In the event that this court does not see the reasoning of the plaintiff’s arguments, I would like to ask for a suspended imposition of sentence if I do not have any more tickets in the next three months.

Then, if it pleases the court,I would like to ask for a lenient fine and lenient court cost as this is my first ticket in about six years. I have been trying to obey the traffic laws to the best of my ability.

I finally plead guilty with extenuating circumstances, but the judge still found me guilty. He refused to take into consideration my objections or to even explain why my objections were not valid.

I used to get upset because in a perfect world my objections would have been valid, but a friend of mine finally explained to me that the reason I would never win in a traffic court like this is because it is a corrupt, fixed court system.

BOYD B. MCNIEL Pea Ridge, Ark.