I was traveling on 300 towards I-75 and came through Warwick, GA. I saw the sign where the speed limit went down to 55 and slowed down to about 58-59 and was being passed by another car so I may have missed the other sign. As I crested over the hill right after a car passed me, there were at least 3 squad cars on the road, 2 of them had people pulled over and I didn’t think much of it because I thought I was only going 3 or 4 over and I had just been passed by another car. I was riding in the “passing lane” and the car passed ME on the right. The officer, Stopped my car and wrote me a speeding ticket for going 63 in a 45 after I told him I honestly missed the sign and I didn’t think I was going that fast.

On the way to my day of court where I had every intention of fighting this ticket because I didn’t feel I was no more than 5% guilty of speeding, I checked the signs coming into town. There is a 55 speed limit ahead sign, 55 MPH sign, 45 speed limit ahead sign and a 45 MPH sign all within MAYBE 200 yards of each other and then goes into a hill that goes into the town area.

Here is what I witness on my day of court. THE ONE RING CIRCUS THAT PERSUED..

On July 14, 2015, I had the “honor” of sitting in your municipal court room to try to defend my speeding ticket.
I arrived there 30 minutes prior to the time shown to be there on my ticket. I sat in that room and watched UNPROFESSIONALISM in this court; from the magistrate smoking on an E-Cig while court was in session, the judge being 15 minutes late, police walking around with their mirrored sunglasses on their head. I have never been in a court room with less control than that. I sat there and tried to listen as people were talking to the judge and others were carrying on and for the most part ignored the very few times an officer may have asked people to quiet down.
I sat there and listened to “Judge” ______ give a dismissal to a young lady who was going 30 MPH over the speed limit after he made fun of her writing and quizzed her on driving and she missed a bunch of questions.
I sat there and listened to “Judge” Gregory give a dismissal to a young man who was going 27 MPH over the speed limit because he took a class and he brought his parents with him.
I sat there and listened to “Judge” ______ give a fine to a woman and then as community service told her to come back every 2nd Tuesday of the month for the next 6 months to give people the “Stink Eye” when people ask dumb questions as part of her community service.
I sat there and listened to “Judge” ______ give his little sermon about what the bible says when a young man told him he donated his fine to his church because the spirits told him to. I KNOW he is not allowed to mention his religion or what he believes when it comes to his judgments.
I sat there and listened to him speak to the crowd on so many other cases when it was really nobody else’s business.
AS I come up there with a LEGITIMATE, honest description of what happened that day and that I honestly didn’t see a speed limit sign and that I believe I was mis-targeted by the officer because another vehicle was PASSING ME when I was stopped, “Judge” _____ made sure that I paid my $220.00. The first time I came up he told me, if I knew the person who sang some song about Bangkok he would dismiss it, and of course I didn’t. I entered not guilty and he had me sit down to get back to me. UNPROFESSIONAL.
Your prosecutor wanted to try to scare me with his officer’s record on the force into the plea deal. NO DEAL. I didn’t bring my military record to court with me to put up against your officer. I just think “Judge” ______ wanted to make his good ol’ boy officer look bad in front of his Junior Officers.