Posted on 08/20/2004 11:19:31 AM PDT by RMrattlesnake
excuse me, but ... uh ... so what? slow down and you wont get locked up.
Hey, you're not Al Gore posting under a pseudonym are you? :-)
Call a lawyer and present the facts to him. Maybe he can give you guidance.
Sounds like you have no recourse, the cops were simply doing there job, you may not like how they did it, but they still did there job.
I'd lock you up myself for writing an entire page without a using a paragraph.
well, here in VA, that would be called "reckless driving", an arrestable offence (though they hardly will unless you are beligerent)
I have similar problems like you due to this. It stinks. Hang tight. You will be OK. My little story goes like this, I got pulled over for what was claimed driving over the white line on a curve near house that I always take. I was told to get out of car for DWI, I was asked to touch my right hand to my nose, I did left hand and was hauled off on DWI. I blew NOTHING. I spent the night in jail at age 20 due to this nonsense.
It was probably the spelling police.
You won't be reimbursed for your, or your wife's, missed work. To put not too bright a point on it, they don't care.
A majority of police are not bad people but they deal with enough bad people that they are not going to take the risk on you unless they know you personally.
Nothing to apologise about RM. Theres plenty of us without dyslexia that can't spell very well or get sentences constructed strange. You presented your issue quite clearly. I would advise you to find out if there is an office of citizen complaint at City Hall. You might also get alittle free advice from an attourney. Your not alone in this sort of situation. Happens all the time everywhere.
Good Luck!
Count your blessings.
Someone messed up though if he was cleared but the computer didn't show it. I thought I was going to jail awhile back. I got pulled over and my license plate didn't match. Evidently the dispatcher doing multiple tasks and got mixed up. The police officer was very nice and appologized . He knew something not right though. It was a new car and I was calling the dealer. I just hope the person with my tag number was cleared too.
Colorado Penal Code 3481: Unlawful Refusal to Use Paragraphs.
In alot of places doing 20 miles over the post speed limit with a minor on board would be considered reckless driving. It is an offense that can have you arrested on the spot!
Bummer of a mixup, but if you hadn't done whatever it was that you originally plead guilty to, you never would have had this problem. Don't blame the officer, he/she was doing his/her job.
The courts are separate from Dept of Corrections and so are their computers. In Alaska, all our law enforcement computers can tell us is if there is a warrant...not the reason behind it. You have to deal with the court system to find out the problem and to clear it up.
I do not hate Police officers in fact I respect then I belive that the police are ministers of justice but this was not justice.
I have no idea how one would handle a situation like this, but my first suggestion would be to start viewing police officers for what they are: agents of the state. Their first duty is not to "protect and serve" their fellow citizens but to enforce the laws of the state, right or wrong - computer glitches, clerical errors and all.
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