Shears v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

As his sole assignment of error, on appeal from his conviction of Speeding, in Payne County District Court, Case No. T-80-4606, the defendant, David Wayne Shears, argues that any testimony adduced from the radar speed detection device’s readout is incompetent, because the testing devices used in verifying the accuracy of the radar unit had not been proven accurate themselves. This issue is one of first impression in our State.

The arresting officer testified that prior to stopping the defendant for speeding, (his patrol unit’s radar device had registered the defendant’s…