Wombat News
13-10-2003, 11:15
The Hague, Wombat News
In a simple but solemn, and moving, opening ceremony, the twelve black-robed justices of the newly-established World Traffic Court held their first session at the Palace of Vehicular Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Chief Justice Ted Iyous (Seocc) quickly gavelled the Court to order as he and his fellow justices from Vrak, Enodia, Xanthal, Esamopia, Western Asia, Draykon, Kitsylvania, Ale Knights, Grunge-France, Enigcir and Austrin-Ontin heard their first case, House v. Menelmacar, an appeal of a $150 fine levied against Wendy House of Tor Yvresse by the Elentari’s Court of Menelmacar. Mrs. House was stopped by Menelmacari police on 29 September this year for allegedly doing 32 mph in a 30 mph zone.
In his opening statement, Bill Allott, Mrs. House’s lawyer who is best known for his long associations with the Wombat News group, claimed that his client was really doing only between 22 and 25 mph and that the state of Menelmacar operates "speed traps" in which drivers with foreign licence plates are routinely given bogus speeding tickets, the receipts of which constitute 68% of the Menelmacari traffic police force’s annual operating budget. The trial is expected to last more than six weeks, and Mr. Allott says that he intends to have 37 expert witnesses testify as well as introduce into evidence spy satellite imagery that will "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mrs. House was and continues to be the victim of a gigantic governmental conspiracy to deprive her of her most basic human rights."
Most experts give Mrs. House a 50-50 chance of winning her appeal, but doubt that the case will establish any legal precedents regardless of how the court decides. Great anticipation, however, awaits the next case on the court’s docket, Black v. Tor Yvresse, in which a Roanian man is seeking the overturning of his conviction for parking in a handicapped zone that he claims was not clearly indicated as such.
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In a simple but solemn, and moving, opening ceremony, the twelve black-robed justices of the newly-established World Traffic Court held their first session at the Palace of Vehicular Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Chief Justice Ted Iyous (Seocc) quickly gavelled the Court to order as he and his fellow justices from Vrak, Enodia, Xanthal, Esamopia, Western Asia, Draykon, Kitsylvania, Ale Knights, Grunge-France, Enigcir and Austrin-Ontin heard their first case, House v. Menelmacar, an appeal of a $150 fine levied against Wendy House of Tor Yvresse by the Elentari’s Court of Menelmacar. Mrs. House was stopped by Menelmacari police on 29 September this year for allegedly doing 32 mph in a 30 mph zone.
In his opening statement, Bill Allott, Mrs. House’s lawyer who is best known for his long associations with the Wombat News group, claimed that his client was really doing only between 22 and 25 mph and that the state of Menelmacar operates "speed traps" in which drivers with foreign licence plates are routinely given bogus speeding tickets, the receipts of which constitute 68% of the Menelmacari traffic police force’s annual operating budget. The trial is expected to last more than six weeks, and Mr. Allott says that he intends to have 37 expert witnesses testify as well as introduce into evidence spy satellite imagery that will "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mrs. House was and continues to be the victim of a gigantic governmental conspiracy to deprive her of her most basic human rights."
Most experts give Mrs. House a 50-50 chance of winning her appeal, but doubt that the case will establish any legal precedents regardless of how the court decides. Great anticipation, however, awaits the next case on the court’s docket, Black v. Tor Yvresse, in which a Roanian man is seeking the overturning of his conviction for parking in a handicapped zone that he claims was not clearly indicated as such.
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