Fight Over $194 Speeding Ticket Costs $15,000 and Counting

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:14AM from the he-fought-the-law-and-the-case-is-pending dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Roger Rude, a retired Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant, is still fighting a speeding ticket his step-son, Shaun Malone, received in 2007. Shaun Malone was allegedly going 62 mph in a 45-mph zone, according to a Petaluma police officer. To the officer's surprise, Malone was using a GPS tracking device which reported his speed to an online database every 30 seconds. At the time of stop, the GPS reported Malone's speed at 45 mph. Rude has been helping Malone fight the speeding ticket for over two years. The Petaluma Police Department has spent $15,000 in the prosecution of this case. The case is now in the hands of the Commissioner."

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Trust GPS over Radar by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-12 16:42 · Score: 1, Interesting

I was a police officer for many years. I wrote hundreds of speeding tickets. Radar is generally reliable, but with all things considered in this case, I would trust the GPS tracking device over the radar.