Fighting a traffic ticket in court

[GabeS14]

Well today I went to court to fight a Red Light Traffic ticket, the ticket was not issued by a camera, it was by a beverly hills police officer. and I was sure I didn't run the light.

I showed up to court with a few google earth pictures of the intersection with some diagrams showing the officers location and POV and my location etc.. and some other print outs of pictures of the intersection close up, i also had subpeoned the DVD of the incident that the officer had from his on board cam.

It was going to be a tight case, when the light switched to red i had barely made it over the first line(limit line)
and I still wasn't sure if the judge would allow to view the DVD in the court.

anyways, When the judge told me that my citing officer was there also I almost gave up, but decided to continue on and go to court, as soon as I said that then tyhe officer stood up and said"your honor I would like to dismiss the case in the name of justice" or at least thats what I understood...

I guess he knew it was a tough case and he didn't want to sit and answer all my questions and argue about it.

So my main point is, if you think you didn't deserve a ticket, (FUCKING FIGHT IT)
there is the chance of the cop not showing up, the chance of you being able to put togetehr some good evidence and the chance of the cop being there but not wishing to go through the entire tiral to prove his case because it is gojng to be a tough win for him.
and even if the cop does show up you can still decide to take traffic school at that point instead of going through with the trial.
Out of the first 8 people there the first 2 were dropped because the cop didn't show up, the 3rd and 5th got dropped like mine so basically 5 out of eight people that showed up won their cases!
thats it, hope the info was usefull, I am getting my $380 bucks back, in the mail in 4-6 weeks.