My question involves traffic court in the State of: California
I got a ticket for speeding in an area in front of a senior center and decided I'd take my chances and do a written trial. I'd like to know what you guys think of my defense as this is my first time getting a ticket and I have no idea how I'm doing.
My defense basically said that I was driving southbound on the street and do not recall my speed because this happened in December and it is not written on my ticket. I do know that I was not going faster than the people driving around me going the same way. The conditions that day were clear and the road was dry. My reasoning for going faster than 25 mph was that it's extremely common for everyone to drive down that road at about 35-40 because it's a downhill that quickly turns into an uphill. I've driven down that road almost every day for the past 3 months and I've noticed that every time I slow down to 25, as I should, the people behind me either switch lanes very quickly without looking to avoid having to slow down or traffic builds up behind me. The times I've decided to keep the same speed as a car next to me, I end up going about 40mph.
I also wrote in that the officer was not facing his LIDAR gun directly at me and was at an angle which would have compromised the speed I was actually going. I added a little diagram to my written trial to illustrate that.
Please let me know if I should give up hope or what I should fix. I obviously condensed it for this forum. Thank you!!
TLDR: Speeding. Don't remember speed, not written on ticket. Downhill that turns into uphill quickly. Nobody ever goes 25 because of that. When I go 25 on that street people switch lanes quickly. Dangerous. LIDAR gun not facing me directly.

