police radar

Police Radar is faulty. State of Florida v. Aquilera (1979) This infamous case is known widely as the Miami Radar Trial. After a local television reporter showed a house clocked at 28 mph and a palm tree clocked at 86 mph, the story broke nationwide and radar was quickly shown to be less than accurate.In this case the Dade County Court sustained a motion to suppress the results of radar units in 80 speeding ticket cases. The court’s opinion stated that the reliability of radar speed measuring devices as used in their present modes and particularly in some cases, has not been established beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt, nor has it met the test of reasonable scientific certainty.