Can your E-ZPass records be used against you in court? You may be surprised to know that New Jersey Courts now admit E-Z Pass records into evidence. Where has your privacy gone?

Be careful next year boys and girls! Valentine’s Day drunken driving patrols made throughout Lower Bucks by State Police led to 33 traffic stops. Pennsylvania State Troopers from the Trevose and Dublin barracks conducted a roving drunken driving DUI patrol on several Bucks County highways. The patrols were done from 11 p.m. on February 14 [...]

On Monday, January 12, 2009 Newtown Township’s Police Chief told Wrightstown Township supervisors that officers from his force will be conducting truck checkpoints at least once a week in Wrightstown, PA. Since Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, PA doesn’t have its own police force; Wrightstown has contracted with Newtown Township to provide protection. The Wrightstown, Bucks [...]

This week, the NJ Attorney General, herself was ticketed for speeding in New Jersey on Route 1 South.   Reportedly she was clocked at 69 m.p.h. in a 50 m.p.h. speed zone. This is refreshing to hear after all the news about NJ Municipal Court judges and employees getting in trouble for ticket fixing in the [...]

This month, the Pennsylvania State Police advised citizens that an e-mail circulating in Pennsylvania that warns of a “speeding ticket frenzy” involving State Police is a hoax. The misinformation in this e-mail is an urban legend that originated in New Jersey in May 2005.  Since then, the hoax has targeted police in several other states. [...]

Many people tell me how they feel free to speed on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia because they know that the Philadelphia Police and the Philadelphia Highway Patrol are not permitted under Pennsylvania law to use radar. Times have changed, well partially… Although there are movements in Harrisburg to allow all Pennsylvania police to use radar [...]

As I traveled up I-95 in Philadelphia last week it was another cloudy and rainy day. As I drank my morning coffee, on my way to work, I merged into the left lane as I normally do to get out of the slow moving and merging traffic. I usually keep my guard up monitoring all [...]

Well I am just assuming it was a speed trap. I was driving yesterday down Interstate I-95 southbound from Bucks County to Philadelphia. Soon after I crossed into Philadelphia (close to the Academy Road exit), I saw a car pulled over by an unmarked car with its hidden police lights on which appeared to have [...]

In the past two weeks I have been doing a lot of traveling or shall we say driving. I have been representing many truck drivers who have received PA speeding tickets. Last week, I had to travel more than 2 hours in each direction to represent a truck driver with a CDL license. DMV points [...]

  As the Saile & Saile LLP Law Blog approaches its first anniversary, we are adding a new category to the Blog. The “PA & NJ Speed Traps” category is now up and running. This is a place where anyone can post the location and type of a speed trap that they have seen or [...]

Operation Yellow Jacket is live and well.   What is Operation Yellow Jacket?  Operation Yellow Jacket is a joint effort between the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDot) and the Pennsylvania State Troopers to stop speeding vehicles on Pennsylvania’s roads and highways.   This practice has been established for several years now. You may be surprised (as I [...]

This week, the NJ Appellate Division ruled on a case where it was alleged by the Defendant that the prosecutor did not prove one of the elements of the offense.   As in any criminal or traffic offense, the prosecution must prove all elements or parts of the offense to the judge or jury “beyond a [...]