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Originally Posted by Tee  NEVER NEVER expect to have a intelligent or fair ruling from a municipal court or magistrate judge- it will never happen. They make their own rules and will side with the officer every time.
The only time you can expect to have a fair ruling is in an appellate court with a real judge. Even then, they will be biased for the cop. The higher up you go, the less this occurs.
Many magistrates are former cops- Freelove is an example. He'll rule for the cop every chance he gets.
It's a joke! |
Magistrate judges are just like any other segment of society. There are some good ones and some bad ones, some that know what they are doing, and others that don't.
I'm not sure what Supreme Court case you're talking about, as speeding tickets wouldn't normally be appealed 4 times (Municipal-->District-->Appellate-->State Supreme-->U.S. Supreme) since you'd be spending probably tens of thousands of dollars to fight a 30-50$ fine.
In any event, asking for something like the officer's radar logs is something that ordinarily a defense attorney asks for through the "discovery process" prior to the hearing. If he asks for them and the prosecution or cop refuses to turn them over, then the court can compel them to do that. However, you can't just show up to the trial and ask for them then if you didn't give the prosecution time to produce them or an indication that you wanted them.