When his wife got a traffic ticket, he tried to fight the system with science. It turned into a battle over free speech

In 2013, Mats Järlström’s wife got a $260 ticket in the mail for running a red light.

It wasn’t exactly the crime of the century. A camera caught her Volkswagen passing through a Beaverton, Ore., intersection 0.12 second after the light turned from yellow to red.

Other people might curse, pay the…