I'm Boned, Need Legal advice Options

[Cutrara]

I was on my way home from my football game (We won 20-12) it was about 12:45, and my buddy was tailgating me, So I gassed it a bit. 43 in a 25 zone, and a ticket for street racing. I tried to explain we weren't racing (we weren't) but I got written up for it anyway. My buddy drove by and she flagged him down and he got a ticket for street racing but not for speeding (she only clocked me). I'm going to fight the street racing ticket, because I wasn't street racing. Any ideas on how I can get out of this with as little pain as possible.

[ExSane]

43 is pretty tense on a 25mph zone. That must have been a neighborhood. To cops, speeding is going past the speed limit. Racing is speeding your car. As long as you attempt to increase your mph aggressively, it would be considered as racing as so an officer told me when he pulled me over when I was speeding 90 on a 45. This would be a hard fight considering that you were going 43 and the judge will most likely look at it that you were "racing" on their terms.

This post has been edited by ExSane: Oct 21, 2006 - 1:17 AM

[Glitch001]

not to be a stick in the mud, but the defination of "street racing" is being involved in a speed contest. And if you look it up in your local laws, its two cars who know each other going at excessive speeds. So by the laws standards, you were. Nonetheless, get a laywer and talk to them.

[Cutrara]

Also, i dont know if this matters either, but it happened right on the jurisdiction line between cheswick and springdale, the cheswick cop ticketed me for speeding and she called in a springdale cop and said i was street racing in springdale, and he came over to me and said he was going to mail me a ticket for street racing... but he didn't witness it so idk if they can do that or if they were just doing it to scare me or some ****

[Glitch001]

Whats written on your ticket?

[block]

were you guys side by side? if so you're doomed! you're not going to win the case. similar case happened to my friend.