Last night, I was in my brother's car, and he was pulled over for speeding. He basically admitted it to the cop, waived his 5th amendment rights, and screwed himself.
The officer also claimed that I tossed something from the vehicle. He told me he was going to find it, and give me a summons, but found nothing. He then told me he had it on camera, but I seriously doubt my door was even in camera view judging by the angle of his car.
I didn't toss anything out the window. That's why he didn't find anything. What I think he saw was me flick the lit portion of a cigarette from the butt. I then put the butt in my pocket. The office4r didn't want to hear me out.
Instead he turned my brother on me by making him think that he had a chance to get out of the ticket, but because I wouldn't admitt to tossing something out the window, he was getting a $375 fine. My brother than said, "Just tell him you threw something out the window!"
I still would not admitt to it.
2007-09-04 04:10:00 · 6 answers · asked by Ryan 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Now, I know the officer heard my brother telling me to say that I tossed a cigarette out the Window. This will most likely go into his notes, that my brother was telling me to admitt to it.
I'm already requesting the car's video of the pull over, and there is no discovery for a littering offense, but based on my brother opening his mouth, do I have a shot at beating this?
2007-09-04 04:12:27 · update #1
Manipulation is an easy thing when turning one against the other. Your brother may have incriminated you by asking you to admit something that did not happen. He wanted to get out of the fine. (loyalty). But anyway if there is no evidence then there is no case. But then again with the law today, evidence can be manufactured. If you honestly did not throw something out the window then stick to your story and dont be baited by trick questions. Good luck man
2007-09-04 04:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by arrogate 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should. Your brother didn't say that you did throw something out, he said just to admit it. I'm sure if your brother sticks up for you in court you will have a better chance. But, throwing a cigarette out of the window is still littering... so I don't know.
2007-09-04 11:22:16 · answer #2 · answered by zonkflower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corpus. Or in your case, lack thereof. Corpus is the body of the crime. (Corpus is Latin for body). If you walked up to a police officer and said, you were the biggest drug dealer in the world and sold 800 pounds of cocaine on the street, you can not be charged with sales of drugs unless there is independent evidence besides your statement. Like, you still have drugs on you and 50k of cash.
As to your brother, he was speeding and go his just reward. By the by, if he saw the burning tip of the cig out and you had admitted it he could have cited you for littering, as there was independent evidence of the littering crime. Good thing he was not listening. The Corpus being he saw something come out he window.
2007-09-04 11:23:11 · answer #3 · answered by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes get the tape an you can use it your bro has to pay speeding tic an if you did not get a littering tic you are fine but get the tape
2007-09-04 11:21:25 · answer #4 · answered by bigdogrex 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think so. if they don't have anything on tape and if you didn't do anything illegal, why should you worry? they are just trying to scare you and it sounds like it's working. if you know you didn't do anything wrong, don't worry about anything. maybe offer to pay some of the money for your brother's ticket.
2007-09-04 11:19:34 · answer #5 · answered by phlygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if there is no evidence of you throwing something out of the window then the charge should be null and void.
2007-09-04 11:17:00 · answer #6 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋