Yeah, and that's a big problem in a lot of traffic courts these days. They don't have any real intentions of doing what's "just". They exist solely for the purpose of collection of revenue.

We have a municipality around here called "Rock Hill", where one of the cops (known for always riding a motorcycle) once proudly accepted a Guinness Book of World Records record for handing out the most speeding tickets. I was in their traffic courtroom several times with friends of mine, and the whole thing was pretty much a circus. One woman got so upset with the way she was railroaded through, she started walking down the aisle from the bench, clucking like a chicken and waving her arms, and calling the judge names. The whole courtroom broke out in laughter and the judge wasn't even phased by any of it. He just called up the next victim as soon as it got quiet enough to hear him speak again.

Many of their citations were for only going 2 or 3MPH over the speed limit. In any reasonable court, they would have easily been tossed out by arguing speedometers are often not even accurate to that level -- but not in Rock Hill.

Since then, Rock Hill actually went bankrupt and had NO police force for a little while. They had to sell their city hall building to real-estate developers to make enough money to try to put themselves back together again. The area actually looks better than ever today.... and I honestly don't know how their traffic courts are run, currently. But they still have pretty heavy enforcement out on their main road running through the town.