Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Today the topic of photo-enforced traffic came up on the Mike McConnell Show on 700 WLW.  The Ohio Supreme Court decision out of an Akron case upholding this technology was roundly criticized as was the use of photo enforcement technology.  The most prescient comments were about slippery slopes and the good ol' days when America would not stand for things like this.  The host's proposed solution: vote any politician who favors photo enforcement out of office.  Had I the time, I would start a web site with every official and his/her stance on these important legal issues.  Please support the National Motorists Association (www.motorist.org) and monitor the global impact of these issues at www.TheNewspaper.com.  To reach Mr. McConnell go to www.700wlw.com. Perhaps if enough of us speak up we can take our country back!

5501.27 Increased penalties for traffic violations in construction zone.

(A) The director of transportation shall adopt rules that do the ...   more »

"The [prosecutor] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor-indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one."

Justice Sutherland, in Berger v. US (1935), 295 U.S. 78