| Ticking the ‘plead guilty’ box will have little effect in terms of the sentence/conviction. It’s just a way of reducing admin and making it easier for you to plea. Because of the speed you’ll definitely appear in court.
In my experience, you do not want to appear as though you’re being cocky or a smart-ar$e in any way. If there’s any sniff of that then they’ll throw a big book at you.
Having said that, you can ‘request’ information if you do feel that you’re not convinced you were doing that speed, as I was, and want to ascertain that all is in order with the equipment and the manner in which it was used. Be assured, there have been cases and instances where the guidelines (which are very precise) haven’t been followed by officers (be it maliciously or as an oversight). In those instances, the case can be ‘thrown out’.
My advice is to request any information before you enter a plea (so as not to aggravate anyone in the court system). You don’t want to be changing pleas at the last minute if you can help it. Get all your information early so you can then make an educated judgement before you get to court. It will help you with damage limitation if the magistrate or CPS official were to get any kind of sniff that you might be ar$ing about.
As I said before, I can help you get the answers you want from the system but can’t help you answer the moral question posed earlier.
In my case I still got banned, but at least I went to court knowing that all was done correctly and in line with the law/CPS guidelines.
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