If I have a witness in my car and a cop gave me a red light ticket, will it be dismissed when I fight it if I have witness testimony? ?
I drive for a living, I had a passenger. I got pulled over by a cop saying that I had gone through a red light. He told my passenger that they could leave since it would take a while to write the ticket to me, to which my passenger refused to leave saying that they were witness and that I had indeed not gone through a red light as the cop had claimed. I have the passengers info, email, phone number, etc which I will use in court. Will this be sufficient enough to get the ticket dismissed?
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Your witness can be charged with perjury for lying. You ran the light, pay the fine.
There is no rule that two witnesses beat one. It all depends on who the judge considers more credible. You can claim that you have no relationship to the passenger but he was in the car with you. You also have to consider that judges drive around and they know that know one has to make up a traffic violation to write tickets which is why cops are usually seen as having credibility. They have no reason to lie.
No, you have a case.
Theoretically
in law
a police officer's testimony
is not more trustworthy
than anyone else's
and is not ALLOWED to be considered more trustworthy.
HOWEVER
when you go to court
you NEED to bring that witness with you
if you want to get the case dismissed.
Otherwise
it's just your word that there is such a witness
and the judge is not required to believe that.
How are you going to prove that they were actively watching the traffic pattern?
Were they even in the front seat?
No, your witness will mean basically nothing. Naturally anyone in the car with you is going to back you up.