In 1988 Diana was pulled over for speeding in rural New Jersey while on her way to the Barn.
She felt this was a gross miscarriage of justice and decided to fight it all the way.
She became an expert on police radar, and the particular brand in use that day (MPH Industries K55 X-Band). She studied all the case law involving it.
She studied the Doppler effect and possible sources of electromagnetic interference in police cars.
She went to the site of the incident and examined all the angles of the road and the physics thereof, calculating how it would be possible for a car to be traveling at x number of feet per second at which point in the road.
Strong in her belief that there was no way she could have been speeding at that particular point of the road and that the radar was either faulty or misread, and armed with stacks of documentation proving her points, she strode confidently into the small courtroom.
“Hey Bill,” said the prosecutor to the Judge, “how’s the family?”
“Just great Bob, thanks”
And on that basis the Judge threw the book at Diana without ever examining her evidence.
We found the file of research she did on the particular radar that was used to trap her. It was about 2″ thick.