The Ohio Supreme Court finally ruled that a visual estimation of speed from a trained police officer alone is enough to convict a person for speeding. I think this sets a dangerous precedent that allows the lower courts and prosecutors to convict a person for speeding without sufficient proof, where they do not have to prove the accuracy of the speed measuring device or judicial notice for the device. This allows every police officer in the state to pull over someone and state they visually estimated the person to be speeding, whether or not they were actually speeding. I personally recommend either not speeding in the state of Ohio or avoiding travel in the state of Ohio all together AKA BOYCOTT the State of Ohio and their businesses until the legislature and governor change the laws to fix this miscarriage of justice.
The Ohio Supreme Court held: "A police officer’s unaided visual estimation of a vehicle’s speed is sufficient evidence to support a conviction for speeding in violation of R.C. 4511.21(D) without independent verification of the vehicle’s speed if the officer is trained, certified, and experienced in visually estimating vehicle speed." (No. 2009-1069 — Submitted February 17, 2010 — Decided June 2, 2010.) APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Summit County, No. 24423, 2009-Ohio-1985.
This is one of the points I argued in my appeal of my speeding ticket against, and I was willing to certify my case to the Ohio Supreme Court if I had lost my appeal based on the visual estimate of speed after I had the appeals court throw out the radar device. The Ohio Supreme Court is allowing the visual estimation of speed for stationary or moving radar (where the cop is driving in the opposite direction, which is almost impossible to estimate the speed of oncoming cars for the human eye scientifically speaking).
