Imagine this -- it’s a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon. You are on the way to church, a football game or an afternoon with the kids at the park. You are driving the speed limit when suddenly you hear sirens. You check the rearview mirror. "It can’t be me," you think to yourself ... but it is. The State Trooper pulls you over.
"Do you know how fast you were driving?" the officer asks. You know you were driving the speed limit but you don't have time to respond. "Well," the officer says, "my estimate is that you were driving over the speed limit." Puzzled, you’re thinking – "estimate?"
Thanks to the Ohio Supreme Court, it is no longer required for Ohio law enforcement to use radar when observing traveling vehicles to identify suspected speeders, because an educated guess of a moving vehicles speed is sufficient to support a conviction in traffic court.