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    Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
    Visual is simple. Throw a pencil across the room and ask him to tell you how fast it was going - exactly. It's not possible for them to visually clock you without something calibrated to reference it by, hence, all of the cars have calibrated speedometers. If he was on a bridge clocking, he cannot say that he could visually tell that you were speeding without a calibrated reference.
    True, but legally it is acceptable and the judge might allow it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DynamicSound View Post
    True, but legally it is acceptable and the judge might allow it.
    Any judge that accepts an officer's visual "clocking" without it being checked against time marking (the lines on the road that police aircraft use for enforcement), calibrated speedometers, radar, or laser, is running a kangaroo court. If you run into a judge that is running a kangaroo court, have the case bound over to a higher court, and get a real judge. There are laws and a process for dealing with this.
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