Denver traffic ticket attorney / how accurate are those cameras?

In the ABA journal I just finished, there was a piece of interest to Denver traffic ticket lawyers and those facing tickets alike. It was primarily about little guys (laypeople without lawyers who had been wronged) facing up to larger entities and coming out on top. This is something that pretty rarely happens in the expensive and confusing criminal justice system. One was about a guy in Pennsylvania who managed to "foreclose" on Wells Fargo because they had failed to file some sort of paperwork correctly. The other was a guy who beat a speeding ticket that was issued by one of those speed traps that catch people around school zones and congested areas once in a while.

Basically, without the help of a Denver traffic ticket lawyer, this guy was able to prove that the camera didn't show he was speeding. The way the system works is it takes two pictures with cameras a set distance apart. If your car moves too far for the interval, and is deemed to be going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, it's flagged. Then an employee with the city looks at it, and decides if there was a violation. Then you get a ticket in the mail.

Only in this case, the cameras didn't show the guy was going more than 10 miles per hour over. By comparing the distance he had traveled to a parked car to gain an estimate of how many feet, then diving that by the number of seconds elapsed between the frame captures, he showed that he was not doing 42 in a 30 or whatever. I'm not really sure whether to be more happy for the guy for beating the system, or annoyed that he had to do it at all. How many people end up in the same situation but just think the camera thing is an automatic 80 bucks out of there pockets? How many others get mad, but don't know how to contest it.

That's why it's good to hire a Denver traffic ticket lawyer. We know the ins and outs of the system, and the little ways the cops (and even the machines!) can make mistakes. We can help you as the little guy, because not every little guy is as determined and knowledgable as the guy from the ABA article