Stop or Slow down?

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A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by
a sheriff's deputy. He thinks that he is smarter than
the deputy because he is a lawyer from New York
and is certain that he has a better education than a
cop from Houston. He decides to prove this to
himself and have some fun at the Texas deputy's
expense.

The deputy says,"License and registration, please."

"What for?" says the lawyer.

The deputy says, "You didn't come to a complete
stop at the stop sign."

Then the lawyer says, "I slowed down, and no one
was coming."

"You still didn't come to a complete stop " Says the
deputy. "License and registration, please."

The lawyer says, "What's the difference?"

"The difference is you have to come to complete
stop, that's the law. License and registration,
please!" the Deputy says.

Lawyer says, "If you can show me the legal
difference between slow down and stop, I'll give
you my license and registration; and you give me
the ticket. If not, you let me go and don't give me
the ticket."

"That sounds fair. Please exit your vehicle, sir," the
deputy says.

At this point, the deputy takes out his nightstick and
starts beating the daylights out of the lawyer and
says, "Do you want me to stop, or just slow down?