http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1562.asp
http://thechandlertimes.com/jan07-feature1.asp

"Mooney is not the first Valley driver to learn during a routine traffic
stop that she was driving on a suspended license. The current system of
photo ticket prosecution is resulting in the suspension of numerous
drivers. licenses without the drivers. knowledge. Some learn of their
suspended licenses by mail, others by a traffic police officer. All
agree: in addition to the time and money lost trying to reinstate their
licenses, unknown suspensions leave Valley residents feeling like victims
of an impersonal and unjust system."
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"The server then submits a delivery affidavit to the court, even if the
process server left the citation on the porch, with the landscaper or
with a nine-year-old. A hearing date is then scheduled, and when the
registered vehicle owners don.t show, their licenses are suspended, even
if they never knew of the citation and even if they weren.t the actual
the drivers."

Combine this with the prior thread on AZ's impoundment profit center:
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1555.asp

An error with the photo radar process can result in a driver having his
license suspended, thousands in court costs and fines, being jailed, and
having his car impounded. All so much without a day in court until the
appeals.

Seem's one of the 'speed kills, law is the law types will have a change
of heart because of the system though:

".If you don.t like photo-radar, don.t speed.. This is advice 60-year-old
Lydia D.Agosto used to give photo-radar complainers. Then Scottsdale
Judge Herbert Pierpan suspended D.Agosto.s license even though she was
never photographed speeding.

D.Agosto appeared in court to prove she was not the 35-year-old,
black-haired driver of a Mini Cooper cited for speeding. D.Agosto is 60,
has curly, light hair and drives a van. She did not own the speeding
vehicle and was clearly not the driver.

D.Agosto.s daughter, who has a different legal name, had registered the
car at her mother.s address. As a result, the 60-year-old grandmother.s
license was suspended after 40 years of driving without a single traffic
infraction.

During her trial, Judge Pierpan pushed D.Agosto.s default license
suspension through even though she was physically present and clearly not
the driver. D.Agosto says the Scottsdale judge ignored the facts
altogether. The superior court agreed with her appeal, reversing all
judgments, fines and defaults, but D.Agosto.s justice came at a cost of
$1,000 paid to a traffic attorney and hundreds more in court fees.

.It.s unfortunate that most people do not want to fight it,. D.Agosto
says of the Scottsdale traffic courts. .The court system as a result just
takes advantage of that. It.s disheartening to see that people are
getting tickets for something they didn.t do,. D.Agosto adds. .Think of
all the people who can.t afford to fight it..

D.Agosto says the most infuriating step in the process was standing
before a judge, expecting justice, and feeling ignored. .They just rubber
stamp. They don.t even hear what you.re saying,. D.Agosto says. .Judges
need to know people are looking over their shoulders.."

And the prosecutor is from the corporation contracted to run the photo
radar:

"Defendants who take a day off work and show up to prove they weren.t the
driver, weren.t speeding or weren.t legally served may be surprised to
find a salaried prosecutor arguing against them. Redflex Traffic Systems,
which makes around $70 from each paid ticket, also serves as the
prosecutor and key witness in the trials. What some see as a financial
conflict of interest goes mostly unnoticed, as many drivers assume the
prosecutor is a city employee."

Corporatism at its finest.