[wbradley]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I suggest investing in a 2-channel dash cam for future incidents, be it cops or someone hitting you and trying to blame you for it.

I have a front facing one and he took it for evidence. I am 100% sure it wasn't working anyway unfortunately, since it might have been the best defense.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Your only argument would be that there was no "intent" to lose traction.
And for God sake don't go into court and say "I've been opening the car up at the same place for 8.5 years

Thanks, good advice. My point was I didn't expect the back to break loose as it did. It was intentional to accelerate quick, but it wasn't to break traction which it appears the cop's case will be based on. I have staggered Pilot Sports in the back, normally very grippy and pretty expensive for people that deliberately induce wheel spin. I will try to distill my statement to the minimum. You are correct that is the only point the justice will need to hear. No need to recount every detail with the courts, but I wrote everything down for reference if needed.

I will decide whether I will need legal council after attending the summons in Feb and seeing the officer's evidence. I wonder if his word is sufficient without video, in case he has no video or the quality is poor. With a huge backlog the prosecutor might pick and choose the cases to pursue or drop. Either way there is no sustained drift and he can't produce video if it never happened. You guys know traction control kicks in very quick it's virtually impossible to hold a drift unless you disconnect all the nannies on this car.