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(Tennessee) Man's License Suspended After Charges Appear From 1987 (Charges not his)
WSVM ^ | 05/28/2011 | WSVM

Posted on 05/28/2011 3:04:24 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

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To: rockinqsranch

“because HOW does one prove something like that?”

How do you prove your innocent? Seems I read something about people being innocent until proven guilty. I guess thats been tossed.


61 posted on 05/28/2011 6:14:33 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: cva66snipe

Crooked stuff going on with regards to revenue based fines an such.... All over the nation.

Stay Safe !


62 posted on 05/28/2011 6:17:18 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: supercat
Were it not for such statutes of limitations, anyone who ever paid any sort of debt would have to keep forever the evidence of such payment. An N-year statute of limitations gives one the freedom to dispose of receipts that are more than N years old, without fear of being compelled to produce them.

Thanks - there's something 'fair' about the above... that's nice.

63 posted on 05/28/2011 7:30:56 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html)
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To: DariusBane

You took the red pill, became self-aware and now are miserable. If you had taken the blue pill, you would have remained a happy idiot. Bummer!


64 posted on 05/28/2011 8:21:10 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: Digger
Something similar happened to me about 20 years ago. I live in NY and our licenses used to have no picture. I used to travel alot and somehow my license was lost, and I didn't realize it for almost six months until I was coming back into the states, at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, and the guy in the booth informs me that I have a bench warrant in Gloversville, NY that I better take care of. Fortunately, he didn't detain me or call the state police.

To make a long story short, I ended up going to court there 3 times, the last time with a lawyer, and I ended up splitting $1200 in fines with the owner of the car which the tickets were issued to. Apparently, somebody there ended up with my license--I had never been there before this--and they got a pile of tickets in this lady's car.

She claimed that it must have been somebody who was joyriding in her car. I thought I was off the hook the first time I went to court and met with the prosecutor when the sheriff said that I wasn't the person he gave the tickets to. I had my Passport for ID. But the small town prosecutor and judge didn't care and said I was fully responsible for any use of the document since I didn't report it missing. Basically, the lawyer told me that they didn't care who they got the money from, but they were going to get it before they let me off the hook. The lawyer was able to convince the judge to split it between us. I paid the court $600, the lawyer $250, and ate the three days I had to take off of work so that I could drive 6 hours there and 6 back each time I had to appear.

I was probably the happiest person in the world when NY finally went to photo driver licenses.

65 posted on 05/28/2011 8:55:17 PM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: SirFishalot

You Sirfishalot, were dealing with a criminal enterprise in a black robe. How long before enough people will believe that this empire is not worth saving?


66 posted on 05/28/2011 8:58:58 PM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: raybbr

Raybbr, the other guy got it too. He just didn’t want to get it. I stripped away the insulation from the wire and instead of the gleaming copper he thought was there he saw a steaming pile of poo.

Nobody likes that the first time.


67 posted on 05/28/2011 9:05:25 PM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: thecabal

thanks for that site.


68 posted on 05/29/2011 5:27:12 AM PDT by sopwith (don't tread on me)
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To: Squantos

It might not be quite that simple. In some jurisdictions the Defendant’s failure to appear to answer the charges against him is considered to “toll” the statute of limitations. That means the running of the statute is suspended until the defendant appears. So, if the statute of limitations is one year, and the hearing at which the defendant failed to appear was three months after the alleged violation, there would still be nine months remaining on the statute once the defendant re-appeared.


69 posted on 05/29/2011 6:51:59 AM PDT by blau993
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

The “Problem” is that the tickets were NOT HIS!

He never owned the cars, or lived at the address cited!


70 posted on 05/29/2011 6:56:29 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: blau993

Not sure of laws in Tennessee but just a few questions.....

Is that not just for felonies ?

Can’t be upgraded to a felony if a bench warrant was never issued for failure to appear can it ??


71 posted on 05/29/2011 6:58:45 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos

This is certainly not a felony. It is at worst a misdemeanor, and more likely it is a civil fine. Nevertheless, most of these things have either a statute of limitations or a statute of repose. The difference between the two is that limitations bars the remedy (the right to bring the action), while repose bars the action itself. As a general proposition, limitations will be subject to tolling and repose won’t. It all depends on how the statutes are written, which is why I can only talk in generalities.


72 posted on 05/29/2011 12:07:48 PM PDT by blau993
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