Driving speeds

[OngBonga]

Your thoughts the whole Making a Murder

I don't even know what that thread is about, I haven't looked at it.

I think your faith in humanity is clouding your perception...

haha I don't have any fucking faith in humanity.

The cop is doing his job, has no reason to lie...

It's not a question of if the cop is lying, it's a question of how certain the jury can be that his version of events is accurate. An inaccurate account doesn't imply a lie, it implies an error of judgement, and it's reasonable that a cop can make an error of judgement. If he's saying "I was doing 70 and the accused was overtaking me on the outside lane by approximately 20mph", that isn't admissable evidence, it's vague. If he then goes on to say "when I caught up with him he was still doing 95mph", well that's better, because it's very difficult for the cop to be mistaken in this regard. But even still, without hard proof, a skilled lawyer should have no problem rendering this inadmissable.

Of course, without hard evidence, a cop is very likely to just give the driver a ticking off, knowing that it's going to be very difficult to get a successful prosecution based on his word alone. He might even search the car in the hope of finding drugs or purely to inconvenience the driver. But he's a fool if he takes a driver to court hoping that his word alone will take him down.

Maybe your law works differently to ours. Or maybe I'm wrong and the word of a policeman is considered fact in a UK court. Or maybe it's you guys talking shit and not me. I doubt that last one though.