There's a difference... when a dead body shows up people are more inclined to go all they way through the process and spend the money to try and track down who and why.

If I receive a phone call, look at my phone (while driving), decide to ignore it and push the hang-up button, a cop saw me look down (hell, we'll even say he saw me look at my phone), and pulls me over...

We just spent a whole lot of money and time fighting in courts that should not have happened. You could be doing any number of a million legal things in your car that require your attention for a second ... the cops have *no* idea what you're really doing.

Really.. laws like this do nothing but allow cops to pull you over for anything. They don't even need a reason anymore.. "Well.. I thought I saw him texting."

I realize youre moving extremes just as we did.. but the massive gap is that nobody is going to want to go through that mess (defendant and cop included) over someone that *might* have been texting. Everyone wants to go through it if someone *might* have killed someone.

I do agree tho.. that using my logic could lose ground on a great number of laws... and personally I think a great number of laws *should* be losing ground.