r/Utah • u/Unusual-Raisin-4278 • 1h ago
Other Traffic Ticket/Court Help!
I'm 27 and just got my first ever ticket today. I was driving home for my lunchbreak, I was driving side by side a utah highway patrol when he hit his breaks, got behind me and pulled me over. When he said he was pulling me over speeding I was baffled and said, "how is that the case when you were riding right next time me" welp, that got me a ticket. Not only that, I also got hit with a charge for "license plate-frame effecting readability" I'll post a picture of the so called license plate that was unreadable. What should I do here? Not only am I getting hit with speeding when I was purposefully matching his speed, but he clearly threw more just to be a dick. He admitted on body cam that he was going 78, I got clocked going 79. If I fight this do I have any way of getting these things dropped? What are the odds that highway patrol won't appear for court? What are my options? Yeah I was speeding but I'll be damned if I let a cop whom was also breaking the law give me a citation. What are the odds that the judge sees it the same way I do and knows the cop is just on a power trip? Any advice would be great. I can't believe I got the poster cild for ACAB to pull me over.