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In article <1992Oct13.153724.100583@watson.ibm.com> yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:

> In article <Oct.9.15.54.25.1992.8664@aramis.rutgers.edu> rinehart@aramis.rutgers.edu (Mark J. Rinehart) writes:
> >You might as well forget it - with the cop pulling out, he probably
> >had to go 73 to catch up to you. This exact same thing happened to me
> >in South Jersey a few years back - I was in fact moving at between 50
> >and 55 - the cop claimed I was going 68. I went to court - had to
> >drive 1.5 hours each way, 3 times - the first 2 times, the cop wasn't
> >there. The 3rd time, he was. He lied on the witness stand. Every
> >question I asked him was objected to by the prosecutor, and sustained
> >by the judge. In the end, the judge said - Mr. Rinehart, I'm not
> >saying you lied. I just don't believe you told the truth. Guilty.

> That is interesting.  In the past, I got a speeding ticket in
> NY state.  I asked for the "sworn deposition" and never got it.
> I went to court and the cop never showed up.
> The judge instantly dismissed the case and I went home.
> What are the rules in the case where the cop doesn't show up
> for the trial?  Surely, they cannot have you running back and forth
> to court forever!
> (But knowing the bureaucracy of the court system, I guess I should not
> be surprised.)
> Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com)  


In NJ, the rules appear to be that you keep coming back until the cop
shows. Of course, there's good reason why a judge will not throw such
a case out. He's looking out for the best interests of those who pay
him - and who knows, maybe in NJ, the judges get a kickback (oops, I
mean commission) for all such bullshit cases. In any case, my
experience and that of most everyone I know who's been thru the
municipal court system in NJ, is that cases rarely get thrown out
because a cop doesn't show - several times. Just another in a long
line of legalized extortion rackets perpetrated on the public in NJ by
the thieves of the legal system, most, if not all, of whom are
lawyers. I suppose that extortion is acceptable in NJ, as long as the
*right* people are doing the extorting. 







Mark