LilZilla 2 #1 June 8, 2007 A fun little story for those into law... About a year ago while traveling to Jacksonville on I-10 I was pulled over for going 30 over. Btw, police can still clock u while they are driving in the on coming lane across the median on an interstate. This I did not know. Anyway... the officer asked for my papers. At the time I sent my driver's license in to MI to have a motorcycle endorsement put on it. I did however have a temp license hiding somewhere. I wasn't able to produce my license to him right away. While i was digging away, he left to do his thing. He came back w/ two tickets. One for speeding n one for not having my license. While he was gone I found it n was not about to walk to him to hand it to him. At first he was refusing to take it b/c i didn't present it to him when he asked. After arguing for a few min. he decided to accept it. Now the ticket had already been written. I never signed it tho. The officer said that he would not give it to me. A year later I receive a notice in the mail telling me that i never paid my fine. I guess the dude decided to turn it in anyway. W/ out my signature on that ticket, how is it able to get to this point??? Sounds like a fraud ticket to me, is this legal? I'm planning on taking this to the legal office on base to speak to a lawyer. Just curious to get a police officers point of view. Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #2 June 8, 2007 Sounds like you already got a police officer's point of view! It's probably not worth spending any money on an attorney, but if you can get free advice, great. I'm not sure if cops have to write "refused to sign" on a ticket if you don't sign it. If your interaction with the cop was good at the time, it might not hurt to talk with him/her by phone. I'm sure that cops probably like getting polite calls from nice, respectful people asking for advice once in a while. Are you living in that state? If you can go to court with proof that you had a valid license at the time and mention that the thin paper (in my state, anyway) temporary license was hard to find in your wallet, it might help, esp. just after a nice convo with the cop. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LilZilla 2 #3 June 8, 2007 I'm a resident of Michigan but i'm stationed in FL. I called the station that the officer is working n asked that he give me a call when convenient for him. I plan on keeping it cool n not letting my temp flare. I do however want to know why he decided to turn the ticket in after he told me he would not. Not sure about how much it would cost to fight this in court yet. But i'll find out if this officer can't/wont fix it for me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #4 June 8, 2007 Just be totally cool. "Sorry to bother you.. Yes sir.... Thank you..." Suggest from the start that someone in "the office" may have made a mistake. Cops are people that are trained to be dicks. Some take it too far, but deep down 80+% are good folks. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #5 June 9, 2007 QuoteI'm a resident of Michigan but i'm stationed in FL. I called the station that the officer is working n asked that he give me a call when convenient for him. I plan on keeping it cool n not letting my temp flare. I do however want to know why he decided to turn the ticket in after he told me he would not. Not sure about how much it would cost to fight this in court yet. But i'll find out if this officer can't/wont fix it for me. Sounds smart...keep it civil and be polite and you may just find that he'll be nice about it and drop it.~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites