Seattle Traffic Lawyer | A New Defense That Won't Work

I thought I'd heard about all the defenses there were to speeding tickets that existed. I am, after all, a Seattle traffic lawyer. That means that if I haven't thought of it myself, a client has probably proposed it. Well, I heard a new one today.

And, before I go any farther, I want to say that I'm not making fun of the person that brought this potential Seattle speeding ticket defense up to me. I enjoy when people give me some suggestions for possible defenses. Sometimes they won't work, but sometimes they will. I encourage you to feel free to speak up and let me know what thoughts you have on the matter.

Now, back to the story. Someone called me today, they'd received a speeding ticket in the City of Seattle on Highway 99, otherwise known as Aurora Avenue. If you didn't know, the stretch of that road that goes from Fremont to the downtown tunnel is a speed trap most of the day. Cops will just sit there and pick people off one by one, over and over again.

Anyway, they had contested some tickets before and had a novel approach that they thought might work. They wanted to challenge the legality of the speed limit itself. The thinking was, if the speed limit is improper, there is no way they could prove he was speeding.

Like I said, I'm a speeding ticket attorney. I can appreciate some creativity, but this was something I'd never heard of. And I didn't think it would be successful because the statute essentially sets the speed limit as that posted. If it says 40, you have to stay at 40 or lower. Period.

I told him what I thought and he saw where I was coming from. And then he hired me. So I thought I'd write about it in case anyone is looking for a novel approach or wants to see what a Seattle traffic attorney thinks about the defense.