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I'm Pleased
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Originally posted by bilmore
Sorry. I think this is sort of an "in" joke amongst ex-prosecutor types. It's an argument made repeatedly by pro-se defendants, who simply make that assertion, and stop. If one brought in an expert to so testify ("you honor, I tested this man's Dodge Dart, and the fastest it goes it thirty"), yeah, it could work.
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A friend of my uncle is an engineer who was ticketed for speeding up a grade on I-90 in Idaho in an old car carrying a load of metal. Representing himself, he presented a developed argument that it was physically impossible for his car's engine to propel that load that quickly, and that the cop must have been pointing his radar gun at a car heading downhill on the other side of the road. A bored judge couldn't care less.
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