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I would send a copy of your tint law in with your paperwork. Since the cop said your tint is 35% and that's what MA law states is legal it will be dropped. That citation should never have been issued as you are not a NY resident!

Include the fact that you both were tailed for quite a while before another officer showed up and pulled you both over. Cruise control was set and the cop was following you, why in the world would you be speeding with an officer behind you, another valid point to bring up. Looks pretty shady to me.

It's iffy to bring up the GPS reading 67-70 mph as they can still find you guilty of speeding. I assume that the speed limit is 65 so if you come out and say 70 they can still nail you for 5 over if they want to. Your best bet is to say the GPS reading was 67 mph (not lying, it's the truth).

Also, you both should swap citation numbers and reference them in your paperwork (both you and Tony). It can't hurt for the Judge to know that you were traveling together and they can look up the citation for the other person. That may put some doubt in the Judge's mind and work to your advantage. The Judge will see that you both were cited and see that your stories are the same and may rule in favor of both of you.

Hopefully there won't be much of an issue getting these citations dropped. **fingers crossed**

i mailed out my appeal yesterday.
$4.65! for a regular sized envelope!
blah.

Chris, my citation noted that there was two of us and i was the lead car.
i also can't find where it actually states he ticketed me for the tint.

if they want to be real arses about it and charge me anyway, i rather only pay for 5 mph over.
what sucks is the surcharges i will get for the next 7 years.

Should of pulled behind the next ny'er to pass ya and start ridding along with them. I had a statey try something like that with me. Said I was doing 80 in a 65 I look at him and said "No you did 80 to catch up too me." I said I was doing 70 so he wrote me for 5 over (btch)

That could be a good thing that he wrote that on the citation, you were the lead car.
HTH did he say he clocked you then? If Tony was behind you I can see him "tailing" or aiming the radar at Tony and getting his speed, but you?

He should have given you a separate citation for the tint.

7 Years!!?? Remind me not to move to MA.

I hope everything works out for both you and Tony!

man im soo glad i didnt stop with you guys at that rest stop


phhewww Kim and I got away, all cause of my BROWNESS

actually, I'm pretty sure if we all would have stopped and left together, none of this would have happened.

small bladdered Elky and Tony had ta pee. Goony and I didn't.
They asked if we would pull over with them, but they said "you don't have to, we can catch up"
I didn't want to break up the group, so I started to pull off behind them at the rest stop, but Goonz kept going.
Then I was like "well shoot, I can't let Haroon go off on his own" so I stayed on the highway.
Haroon and I slowed down to like 60ish to allow for them to catch up.
Eventually we got the cell phone call that they got pulled over.
We pulled over at the next stop, and the pee'ers met us there.

I suppose I could have just pulled off with Elky/Tony and we could have called Haroon to meet us at the next stop.
oh well

the sucks, sounds like no matter what something wouldn't have worked out, oh well ...

I got lucky, I think it was in Ohio I was hit with lazar, or maybe it was someone in front of me as I slowed right down, had been cruising at 80 mph with the traffic, was in a city area before Cleveland

The other thing I was kinda wondering is if Elky's cop had a stick up his azz for MA people, while Tony's cop was like "CT is cool, I'll be polite"
But that's just me adding fuel to Elky's frustration fire.