Ticketing the wrong person.....

[Dr Mordrid]

Re: Re: Ticketing the wrong person.....

Originally posted by bambam
I may be wrong, but isn't ironic that a "liberal" act helped you win a case

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/552.html

That's the Federal statute. Michigan has its own FOIA and an Open Meetings Act that covers governmental unit deliberations. Both were enacted on a bi-partisan basis in the 1990's.

There are some restrictions on both, though they are common sense stuff like not releasing to convicts the current addresses of their victims & witnesses etc.

Dr. Mordrid

[Zitch]

Wow. Congrats Doc.

Fortunately, most cops I meet are very competent, although there are a large share of crooked and/or incompentent officers down here.

<story time!>
My uncle was in New Orleans, and was behind a cop and another car going up an onramp to the interstate highway. Car in front of cop stops at the end of the onramp. Cop hits car. My uncle, who was following a safe distance, does the only thing he can do, slow to a stop behind the cop's car.

Well, the cop walks up to the car he hit and talks to the driver. The officer then returns to his car, looks around, then puts his car in neutral and lets it roll into my uncle's car! Then he proceeds to ticket my uncle!

To make a long story short, my uncle did try to argue this in court, but when a judge has to decide between my uncle and his one witness (he had a passenger) or the officer and his witnesses (the two people in the front car, who turned out to be friends of the cop), guess who he has to go with?

This happened around 15 years ago, and was the only blemish in my uncle's driving record.
</story time!>

[Jammrock]

Now that's low down and dirty!

[UtwigMU]

Well here they did this:

You get ticketed. If you pay in 8 days, you get 50% discount. Apparently it's better to give 50% discount than fight/extort/confiscate fine payment avoiders.

(One starts writing complaints and plainly waits for case to be too far in the past.)

Well done doc.

[Fat Tone]

Congrats Doc It's nice to see a bit of genuine justice for a change.

T.

PS I think you could sell that story for a 1-hour TV show.