Hoovey689

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Man beats ticket on dashcam evidence, takes town to court

Rod MacIver wanted justice after being wronged by his local police department. He was pulled over and cited for running a red light, despite the officer's dashcam video clearly shown that he hadn't. When the matter went to court, the judge, after viewing the footage, threw the case out and dressed down the officer, Jason Lawton.

MacIver isn't through, though, taking the matter to small claims court over the time and effort involved in beating his original ticket. Looking for $2,000 in damages, the 56-year-old resident argues that the department's default attitude "was dishonesty in every encounter."

With his day in court scheduled and Judge Samuel Hoar "looking forward to" the proceedings, neither the officer, his sergeant nor a department administrator were to be found. Only the Shelburne Police Department's lawyer, Colin McNeil, showed up in court. Arguing that the burden of proof was on MacIver, the lawyer argued that the officers didn't need to attend the proceedings (no joke, they were across the street at a coffee shop – insert donut jokes in three, two, one...), meaning the matter was set aside for a future date. While the matter still isn't resolved, Judge Hoar informed McNeil that "it would be a mistake" for the officers to miss the next hearing, according to a report from WCAX.


http://www.autoblog.com/2013/07/30/m...n-court-video/

GiantsFan

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Wow that was solid green!!!!

edgeucated

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This is awesome. I am so glad he is doing this, the cop deserves this.

rominl

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great job, i hope the cop loses more than just his uniform

Hoovey689

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smell that?! It's bacon sizzlin'

pvmike1

I agree. I hope the officer (rather than the department) personally pays the man for wasting his time.

rominl

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just when people don't believe there is such a thing as "quota"

lamar411

Good for that guy for standing up for himself.

<VENOM>

Cop has probably done this so many times its routine, he just now got caught

gengar

Another example of why revenue is such a dangerous influence to be mixing with justice.

I8ABMR

right on !!! Good for him !!

Marzabella

Nice to see the guy was aware enough of his own driving to call out the cop immediately

My0gr81

The "department" is already footing the legal bills as they were sued along with the so called cop. Either way, it is the taxpayer of that county that are being bent over the table.

mrraider

I'm surprised teh defendant got the video. It would have been likely that officer accidentally spilled coffee on the webcam