Alan: Why, in God's name, do authorized representatives of the United States' legal system declare, as a matter of public record, that 93 miles per hour is 75 miles per hour? The bedrock purpose of the courts is to determine -- through presentation of evidence -- what is true. The upshot of systematic falsification is the now-normal ease with which Americans spurn scientific findings, fictionalize any damn thing and believe that one is innocent until proven guilty.  In fact, suspects are "presumed innocent until proven guilty."  Behind every allegation, "the accused" is, as a matter of fact, guilty because he guilty, or innocent because she is innocent. If valid evidence shows Hairston doing 93 miles per hour, any alteration of that number is a kind of "cultural perjury" that honors "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" more highly than Truth itself.

P.J. Hairston gets reduced charge

Clocked at 93 miles per hour; 

pleads down to 75 miles per hour

Updated: September 3, 2013

Associated Press

SALISBURY, N.C. -- North Carolina leading scorer P.J. Hairston has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of speeding and an unsafe movement violation after being cited for reckless driving in July.

Rowan County District Judge Kevin Eddinger accepted the plea Tuesday for driving 75 mph in a 65 mph zone from attorney T. Gregory Jones. Hairston, who didn't attend the hearing, was required to pay a $40 fine and court costs.

Hairston was cited for driving 93 mph on Interstate 85 on July 28. The school indefinitely suspended the basketball star hours later.

It was the third off-court misstep this offseason for the junior, who was twice cited in a month while driving a rental vehicle linked to a felon. He was driving a car registered to a friend when cited in July.

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