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Originally Posted by O'Sullivan Bere
It sounds like your son had one of the 'good guys' on the bench who has little time for pretextual stops and wanted to send a message to the cop to relax on the pretextual stops. The hardliner judges I've experience would have simply said the following too closely was a legitimate vehicle code violation to stop a car regardless of whether he was really fishing for a DUI and/or was a reason forming his reasonable suspicion for stopping the car for DUI.
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The judge may have looked at the time of the ticket which was between 2:30 and 3 a.m. and decided that the cop truly was on a fishing expedition since he pulled my son over about a half a block or so from the bar. The cop had watched him leave the bar and I guess he thought he'd nail him! The stupid thing is that my son was just there helping my daughter close up and hadn't had a thing to drink and though he passed a field sobriety test, he was still taken to the station to blow. After all of that, the cop decided to give him a ticket for following too close.
There was probably not even any traffic on the road for him to follow because even with a major increase in our population in Slidell, the road the bar is on is almost deserted when I close the at night!!!!