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Bamberg was driving on Whipple Avenue in Redwood City when he allegedly ran a stop sign at King Street on March 12, 2005. Bamberg argued he had stopped at the sign at the intersection of Whipple and Copley avenues, but had not stopped at the intersection of Whipple and King because there was no stop sign.
In fact, King Street and Copley Avenue are the same street, but the name changes at Whipple Avenue - something prosecutors believe Bamberg tried to obscure when he was making his argument. The intersection is a four-way stop.
Bamberg, who was then representing himself, offered five photos in his defense at a May 10, 2005, trial in traffic court. He said two of the photos showed no stop sign at King Street, according to court documents. Traffic Commissioner Susan Greenberg suspected those two photos were not of the relevant intersection but from one block away.
When Greenberg said she would go to the scene herself to investigate, prosecutors suspect, Bamberg replaced the King Street sign at the Whipple Avenue intersection with one from Copley - essentially erasing any trace of the intersection of King and Whipple - in an attempt to confuse her.
But Greenberg was familiar with the area, as she had driven through it five days a week for the previous five years.
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A jury convicted him of those charges in February 2007, along with a misdemeanor charge of destroying or concealing evidence for failing to bring the original photos back to court. He was sentenced to a year in jail.
Bamberg was driving on Whipple Avenue in Redwood City when he allegedly ran a stop sign at King Street on March 12, 2005. Bamberg argued he had stopped at the sign at the intersection of Whipple and Copley avenues, but had not stopped at the intersection of Whipple and King because there was no stop sign.
In fact, King Street and Copley Avenue are the same street, but the name changes at Whipple Avenue - something prosecutors believe Bamberg tried to obscure when he was making his argument. The intersection is a four-way stop.
Bamberg, who was then representing himself, offered five photos in his defense at a May 10, 2005, trial in traffic court. He said two of the photos showed no stop sign at King Street, according to court documents. Traffic Commissioner Susan Greenberg suspected those two photos were not of the relevant intersection but from one block away.
When Greenberg said she would go to the scene herself to investigate, prosecutors suspect, Bamberg replaced the King Street sign at the Whipple Avenue intersection with one from Copley - essentially erasing any trace of the intersection of King and Whipple - in an attempt to confuse her.
But Greenberg was familiar with the area, as she had driven through it five days a week for the previous five years.
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A jury convicted him of those charges in February 2007, along with a misdemeanor charge of destroying or concealing evidence for failing to bring the original photos back to court. He was sentenced to a year in jail.
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