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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Not at all, the 80 in a 60 is just a lesser offence, and doens't mean that the guy isn't guilty of both, but in this case he'd be conviced of the higher offence if the cop brings up both.
Say if I hit someone in the head with a bat and kill them.
I'm guitly of murder, and technically assault at the same time. Just because I got chaged with assault before the guy died doesn't mean they can't change it to murder. Same as if a guy is charged with manslaghter, those chages can always be dropped and upped to murder if other evidence comes forward.
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So theoretically could he get a ticket for driving each of 70kph, 71, 72, 73, 74,... etc?
Just seems like there should be something explicitly saying that a person couldn't be ticketed for each kph over the limit he was going, instead of our only protection being "the cop would have to be a real A-hole to do that".
Another problem I got here is with the "police can charge you with whatever they want" statement. If I'm charged with some traffic offense, the burden is now on me for some reason, to prove my innocence. Sounds fair. Also it's not cheap or convenient to prove my innocence. So if you've done nothing wrong, the absolute best case scenario is a loss of a days wages. Pretty sketchy.