If you opt for a trial you will get one eventually but prosecutors will use their control of the system to jerk you around endlessly to run up your costs and force you to plead out. The system is designed to separate you from your money in the most expeditious manner so expect to be treated with contempt and derision by anyone you deal with if you have the audacity to demand due process of law. Remember that the jobs and paychecks of the people who run the system depend on justifying and maintaining it. Nothing drives them into a frenzy faster than a sheep who refuses to be fleeced. To be fair, most of the people who are involved in the system believe in what they are doing.
Most people are inherently honest and responsible and very few get off on abusing the public.
The ones who do are the most dangerous though, as they become the most hostile and obstructive when they aren't taken seriously. The cops will generally be the most polite and least obstructive people you will deal with, not that they will do you any favors, probably because they are in the most physical danger and take the most personal abuse from outraged motorists. Cops get killed on the highways. Be polite but firm, just as they are, or even if they aren't. The use of radar detectors is legal in Connecticut and a good quality unit will pick up most types of radar and some laser units.