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State Supreme Court to Rule on Red-light Cameras

posted by janrinok on Saturday April 05 2014, @07:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-would-have-been-here-earlier-but... dept.

starcraftsicko writes:

The legality of red-light camera evidence in California is set to be reviewed by the California Supreme Court.

Ars Technica reports, the California Supreme Court is hearing the case in an attempt to answer three basic questions:

  1. What testimony, if any, regarding the accuracy and reliability of the automated traffic enforcement system (ATES) is required as a prerequisite to admission of the ATES-generated evidence?
  2. Is the ATES evidence hearsay?
  3. If so, do any exceptions apply?

Cameras in Ohio are also facing state supreme court scrutiny. The SCOTUS has been silent so far on traffic cameras but has previously ruled on the need to be able to be able to question diagnostic equipment operators to ensure a fair trial to avoid hearsay.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07 2014, @03:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07 2014, @03:17PM (#27554)

    In my experience, on the simplest, and easiest ways of out of a ticket is to change the court date. In some jurisdictions, you can call the police operator requesting a meeting with the officer who wrote your ticket. In my area, the scheduler will often reveal the officer's scheduled days off. You can then separately call the court to reschedule your hearing, specifically requesting one of the officer's days off. This often works due to human nature and the nature of a large bureaucracy. The clerk may not check the officer's schedule, or process the officer's own request to move to a different day. In the end, the officer does not show up for the hearing, and the judge throws out the case, and while the case could be refiled, it rarely is, because after all it is just a "minor" traffic infraction.