Wrong license plate

My friend Chris once got a ticket thrown out because the officer wrote her sex as male on the ticket. A friend of mine was given a speeding ticket, then appeared in court only to find that the ticketing officer had written the date as instead of It was thrown out, and then the judge explained that officers will sometimes fill a ticket out incorrectly on purpose, as fear is probably more effective than a warning.

Then if you decide to fight it after the fact, you will be filing an appeal. That will cost you much more because the lawyer will be filing an appeal and embarrasing the judge somewhat. He needs to decide if it would be worth paying the attorney to make the phone call, or is his time going down the the courthouse on his court date to roll the dice is worth his time.

That will cost you much more because the lawyer will be filing an appeal and embarrasing the judge, and the cop somewhat. He needs to decide if it would be worth paying the attorney to make the phone call, or is his time worth going down to the courthouse on his court date to see if the judge is nice.

You can do what I did. I threw the mistaken parking ticket in the trash and never heard another word. From a purely legal view, an inadvertent error on a ticket can be corrected. If you appear at the trial and plea the error, the court can, in its discretion, allow the citation to be amended and a new court date set.

In big cities with crowded dockets, the court may dismiss the ticket. Under the doctrine, any evidence that is the direct result or immediate product of illegal conduct on the part of the State is inadmissible in a criminal trial. There are several errors that will result in an automatic dismissal. The error was fixed only after the public unveiling in October drew attention to it. John T. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

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