Cop wrote my ID incorrect on ticket

SouthArk370Z

I think H2O_Doc is on the right track here. The cop made an honest mistake (which, as Stealthrider2 points out, can be fixed), you are still you, and you are likely to piss the judge off with your outhouse lawyering.

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exsanity

Generally, if I chose to speed, I pay the ticket. :shrug:

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SouthArk370Z

The only ticket I have ever fought was my first one - a reckless driving charge. Cop said my ten year old 1964.5 Mustang with a 200 CID straight-6 was spinning both tires for two blocks. I told the judge that if my car could do that (it didn't have the power nor a posi), I'd be glad to pay the fine but my POS car was lucky if it would bark a tire. Judge knocked it down to careless driving (I did have it to the floor while banging through the gears), which was about 1/10 the fine.

In every other case, I was at fault so I paid the fine without going to court. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong; why fight it?

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moody_i

Yeah, if you don't mind a point on your record and throwing away a few hundred dollars then by all means keep paying your hard work, sweat, and time to the government whom do not give a damn about your well-being

MacCool

You won't get away with it. They have your address and plate number. He misspelled your name a little and got you lic # wrong by one number, but what are the odds that it wasn't you?. If you go to court they'll ask you if that was you that he stopped. Are you going to lie under oath?

Just pay the fine. You broke the law. Man up and take your medicine.

dP3NGU1N

I've tried to make a case based on wrong information on the ticket before. It was only one time and the judge amended it for the officer because he still got my tags right. Not saying it can't be done, just my experience. Though people have claimed it's been done, no one I've ever spoke to has actually won with that. It's always a friend of a friend or someone's cousin.

HOWEVER, all is not lost. If you're written up for CVC22350 (should say on your ticket), it's a very easy win. Assuming you have the time to deal with the courts. If you're pulled over in California on surface streets for speed, this is generally what you're written up for.

Help! I Got a Ticket!

All the info you need to beat your ticket, go through the tutorial. Happy reading.

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moody_i

Thanks for the reference!

moody_i

One thing I forgot to mention. This is the first day I bought my Z. It is not on my name... Yet

dP3NGU1N

Doesn't matter. Responsibility follows the driver, not the owner. This isn't China.

Seriously, in China, responsibility follows the owner of the car regardless of who's driving. Someone can steal your car and kill a bunch of people with it and YOU would go to prison. ****** up, right?

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Zipper 104

Yup....I believe this is the very reason that up here in B.C., Photo Radar is no longer used. Period.
Courts ruled that the owner could not be held responsible for tickets sent to them in the mail (as owner of a car caught speeding by an unattended photo van) when the driver of the vehicle could not be identified in the photo ticket when the owner denied it was them.
It all got really rolling when public outcry pretty much proved the vans were being set up in 'dicey' locations for generation of income over speed enforcement. Some of the stories are epic.
Now you have to meet face to face with your accuser. No chicken**** photo radar tickets arriving in your mailbox when you lent your car to your stoner brother.

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kenchan

lol'ed at getting pulled over by a bicycle cop.

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mishuko

don't laugh man... i saw it happen although it was a pelaton of bike cops. about 6 of them somehow pulled over a car. the crazy part in the opposite direction another group of bike cops had someone else pulled over.

okay it was pretty funny

seeing a bimmer and a caddy being written up by a bike cop

ShutokuZ

IMHO, Just pay the fine, take an online traffic course to get the points waived, and be done with it.

JC-Nismo

Pay up when and only if they find out, puck the laser holding ticket writers!!! 10 cops hiding on the off ramps while one tags speeders with super speeder laws in Georgia that will be $700 for going over the speed limit by 15mph!!! If you can get one by them off his error then good for you, puck it.