How Police and Traffic Light Companies Are Conspiring to Give You More Tickets

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24. This has always been controvercial...

a simple google search will bring up dozens of articles from around the US regarding how yellow lights were shortened once red light cams were installed.

Recently however, this happened...

Florida Judge Ruling Finds Red Light Cameras Unconstitutional
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/florida-judge-ruling-finds-red-light-cameras-unconstitutional/

A man from Pasco County, Fla., who got nabbed by a traffic camera to catch red light runners believes the camera was wrong — both in snapping his license plate and constitutionally. On the constitutional front, Thomas Filippone now has a county judge’s ruling to back him up.

The Tampa Bay Tribune reports that Filippone received a $158 traffic ticket, but he wasn’t about to pay up and be more careful with the reds next time:

“If they are going to prove I was driving the car, it’s their duty under the law to prove the identity of the driver,” said Filippone, 45, who maintains his 2002 Nissan Altima crossed the intersection a split second before the light turned red on April 15. “It unjustly shifts burden to me and makes me shoulder the burden of having to prove their case.”

Pasco County Judge Anne Wansboro was in agreement and dismissed the case Filippone brought before her stating that use of the cameras ”impermissibly shifts the burden of proof to the Defendant and therefore does not afford due process, and is unconstitutional to the extent due process is not provided.”

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