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

Denver traffic ticket lawyer / long distance relationships

Sometimes you want your Denver criminal defense attorney to give you a lot of attention and make sure your case is handled well. Sometimes you probably want to be there at each stage of the proceedings, to make sure you don't get screwed over. But if you just got a $100 speeding ticket, especially if you don't live in Denver, you probably just want the stupid thing to go away. One way people get victimized by traffic tickets is because they feel it is too much of a pain, and too much of an expense, to drive all the way from Durango back to Denver (where they got the ticket) to contest it. Here's the thing though: with a Denver traffic ticket lawyer you don't have to.

You can call a lawyer over the phone and talk to him and see if it sounds like he'll do a good job. He can decide if it sounds like you have a worthwhile case, and also give you a quote. If you decide to retain him, we can take payments over the phone. Then you'll fill out and mail (or fax) some paperwork to the court designating your Denver traffic ticket lawyer as your agent (that's lawyer speak for a person authorized to speak and act on your behalf). Once that's done, the attorney can pretty much take care of everything for you. He can enter a plea of not guilty, pick up discovery in the case, talk to the prosecutor and try to get it dropped. If that doesn't work, your Denver traffic ticket lawyer can go to trial without you. It's true that you won't be able to testify. However, usually the defendant's testimony isn't really all that helpful at a traffic case. The case is more about what the officer observed, what the condition of the road is, and whether the equipment the officer was using was in working order (like the radar gun or the laser speed checker). So if you live far away and want to contest your Denver traffic ticket, call a speeding ticket lawyer and let him take care of it.