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It definitely sucks that the cop dropped the hammer so hard on you, but I think something else is going on here. Ordinarily, that large number of tickets equals the driver being a total D bag, but the large amount of police cars leads me to believe that a car similar to yours was seen leaving a street race, recently evaded the police, or may have been involved in a crime and they didn't have any way to prove it wasn't you; therefore, they wrote a bunch of tickets after a computer check of you didn't yield any useful information. Whatever it was, and whatever you do courtwise, I'd stay out of Metuchen.
I once got pulled over in Highland Park. Similar circumstances. Cop saw me, turned around followed me until he had a back up unit behind him, lit me up. Then I saw at least three more cars join them. Guy took one look at me (Without asking for ID), asked where I was coming from, where I was going, and where I was the night before. When I told him work, and who I worked for, he actually asked me if anyone else had been driving my Jeep at the time. If I wasn't on the job, I wouldn't have been surprised if I hadn't gotten tickets for my lack of inspection, mud flaps, or any other violation he could find.
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