Monday, October 31, 2011

Mid Michigan History: Beware of the Mt. Pleasant speed trap

via The Morning Sun

Mt. Pleasant City Attorney Edward N. Lynch, pictured left in the photo on right, had a six-member jury observe speed-time operation in November 1956, as prelude to a jury trial in which a motorist had been tagged by Mt. Pleasant’s new “semi-robot” cop and protested the ticket. Officer Maynard Pickens operated the machine for, from left beyond Lynch: Officer Tom Martin, Officer Ray Harless, Attorney Ray D. Markel, Defendant Gordon McKinnon, Judge James E, Ryan, jurors – Kenneth Elliott, Jessie Haight, William Downey, Joy Allswede, Louise Bissett and Leona Quinlan, Attorney B. A. Wendrow and Police Chief Vernel Davis.

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