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First off, the 148 mph is the rate of speed of the officer himself and not the motorcyclist in front of him. The officer has a closing rate of ~ 40 mph. If the suspect were to be going 148 mph, then the officer is operating a WSB class super bike to chase him down. We can also tell that the speed measuring device is not operating in forward scan but is slaved to the officer's speedometer. Those times when the officer isn't lined up with the rider, the speed doesn't shift or change for the suspect shifting out of frame and the speed remains constant with the officer's rate and not what's going on in front of him. Otherwise, according to the officer's own evidence, they were either in the middle of a NASCAR lap or his equipment was malfunctioning. The parts where the motorcyclist gets out from in front of the officer would have the cars going 116 mph along with the semi-trucks as well. This should be an easy case to shoot down if the guy had a lawyer that wasn't sleeping or a judge that apparently wasn't corrupt and trying to bring his personal feelings of hatred against bikers and threw the book at him and probably levied a nice fat fine as well.
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