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Originally Posted by opendoor
You losing a case doesn't change the law or how it's normally enforced. There are a lot of reasons you may have lost:
1) The judge was incompetent
2) The judge has a strong pro-police bias and would never believe anything you say that contradicts the officer's account.
3) You didn't argue the exception based on the law. Given that you were seemingly unaware of the actual law, that's possible.
But the fact is, in virtually every single light change in every city with similar laws, drivers enter the intersection on a yellow and aren't ticketed because the law allows for exceptions when it's not safe to stop. You got a prick for a cop and a judge who defers to them. But that's the exception.
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I am aware of the law. You are completely out of your mind on this. Your only opportunity for defense is "it wasn't safe to stop" but you're up against a cop who already wrote you a ticket because "it was safe to stop." So you have a law that says you have to stop before an intersection if the light turns yellow and a cop that says it was safe to do so.
You can't win that and there is no objective criteria you can use to defend yourself.