Did the cop mess up?

[stickyfingers]

A friend of mine got a careless driving ticket the other night and was issued a ticket. On the ticket the cop messed up the date that he should appear in court. He wrote that he should show up January 13, 2003. That date has already passed and would be impossible to make. So, does he have to show up on a date he was not scheduled for, meaning 1/13/04? Is this some sort of loophole?




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[A.J.]

It's possible.

I was in traffic court once and saw some chick get out of a ticket because the cop had written "Independence Avenue, SW" instead of "Independence Avenue, NW".

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[sr71blackbird]

Wonder if you dont show up and they eventually send you something saying you missed it, and you say, "I was there in 2003! No one showed up, so I left!"

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[wilee]

Don't risk it. A cop once pulled me over after I went through an light (at the time I entered the intersection it just turned amber, and the intersection included train tracks). The cop wrote the wrong intersection on the ticket (one that doesn't even exist if you want to get technical) and I asked him about it in the "trial" and the judge got pissed and said "He made a simple mistake, don't go down that path..."

Wound up paying a fine for "running a red light" and court costs. The cop was more than a block away when I entered the intersection, with 2 cars ahead of him, yet he was paying a whole lot of attention to me...

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[Arienette]

i think you can get out of tickets when the cop makes a mistake in writing up the ticket. we got a parking ticket a couple months ago, and the cop had screwed up on writing out the license plate number. we got out of the ticket.

but i'd just give it a few hours.. one of the cops on the board will respond, and i'm sure they'll know better.

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[MizzleTizzle]

RUN! Your friend is lying and has been wanted since January! They're gonna shoot first and ask questions later when they see they blew off court for 11 months!

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[Spank Daddy]

Yeah, making the mistake of writing the wrong year on the ticket is just like "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit". I hate it when guilty people look for legal loopholes to escape justice. Tell you friend to pay the fucking ticket and drive better next time.

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[furie]

A friend of mine got a careless driving ticket the other night and was issued a ticket.


Not only is that redundant, it's repeated unnecessarily.


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[JustJon]

The cop wrote the wrong intersection on the ticket (one that doesn't even exist if you want to get technical) and I asked him about it in the "trial" and the judge got pissed and said "He made a simple mistake, don't go down that path..."
From what I know, the judge was in the wrong there. If he says you were speeding or whatever in a non-existant place, he should have thrown it out. Prolly should have consulted a lawyer before going in for that one.

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[JimBeam]

As with anything that goes in front of a judge or jury it is open to interpretation. In most cases the judge will side with the police officer unless the error was completely careless ( like writing the wrong intersection ). Certain offenses are by the letter of the law. I was a state trooper in Louisiana and we had town that had a lot of strip joints and the judges there were very lenient on drunk drivers because they were, in a way, essential to the economy. If you made one error, either written or verbal, in your reports or documentation, not matter how minute the cases could be dismissed. I can see letting a parking ticket go, but not a DWI.

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[high fly]

I wouldn't bet on your friend getting off on such a technicality.
Sure, we hear about it happening, and it is surprising when we do because we know the person is getting out of something he shouldn't.

Once I was in court and there was a guy who had been nailed for speeding and had heard about how to "beat" it and was grilling the cop on when the radar was last callibrated and had a list of about 20 other questions and instead of looking like Joe Attorney he looked like Joe Asshole.
All he managed to do was piss off the judge for wasting so much time...

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[JimBeam]

The calibration of the radar one is a good point.
You are supposed to do that before every shift, but its never done. Another thing that people dont realize is that a police officer isnt allowed to just run his radar at any passing car. Its a form of entrapment. It is supposed to be done after he has " surveyed " other cars and been able to determine that one car is traveling at a higher rate of speed. Obviously he can just say that he was and there'd be no argument .

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