Wrong date on a traffic ticket?

Question

I received a ticket for expired tabs and I looked at it today as I want to send it in and get a court date for it as hopefully I can get the charge reduced. Upon looking at it, I realized the officer wrote the wrong date, he wrote a date almost two weeks prior to it happening. Here's my dilemma. I have 15 days from the date of incident to mail the ticket it, well are they going to just look at the ticket and tell me I waited too long or is there another way they can find out the actual date of violation, such as when the officer turned his copy in? Should I write a letter when I mail it in and explain what date it really happened, telling them I did respond within 15 days? Any help would be great.

Answer 1

Tickets are numbered. The have a sequence. you can ask the pofficer to produce his ticket book to show the ticket before and after. This will show the true date of your ticket as he would most likley have the right date on those.

Proving when your ticket was written

Addition: All traffic ticket booklets are numbered. Each ticket has its own number They do this for control over each ticket issued and for just these situation they would be numbered something like this 60852, 60853 60854

If your ticket is 60853 you have them look up 60852's date and 60854's date and it should give you the date yours was written on in not exact very close.

By the way a small mistake like this won't get you off from the ticket, but doing what I said can prove you didnt go past your time frame to respond to the ticket which is important as they can put a warrant out for your arrest for Failure to Appear. I would take care of it ASAP though.

I would actually go to the courthouse to take care of this. The last thing you want to do is leave it in the hands of the person who deals with the mail. They dont understand it or anything like that and you are S O L. Go and make sure it gets taken care of the 1st time

Answer 2

Wrong Date On Speeding Ticket

Answer 3

You can try two things, the best thing to do is contact the police dept and let them know the ticket has a wrong date on it. Ask them to issue a "citation amendment" to place the corect date on it. They should do it.

Two, if they do not, simply contact the court cleark advising them the ticket is dated wrong and your attempts to amend the ticket are ignored by the police.

Your last hoop to jump threw would be to simply go to court and prior to doing so subpoena the officers tickets for that month; as the tickets are all numbered in sequince it will show that the ticket dated two weeks prior is way out of sequencial order supporting your claim

Answer 4

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You can go to the local PD office and show them the ticket, they can easily pull up the event proving your side of the story and will denote this on the ticket having an officer sign off to it's authenticity. Done deal

Answer 5

The wrong date is not material as long as the police officer can determine the offense committed although you can cite it if you have a valid defense.

Answer 6

you should be able to go to court and have it thrown out of court because the wrong date was put on the ticket

Answer 7

plead not guilty and bring a witness/other proof to court that you werent in that area on the day he said you were...slam dunk not guilty...a record of your pay/work hrs would do..also some other positive proof..i used my stores security video one time for that type proof...it showed by time/date stamp i was in the store at the time the guy said i was somewhere else...

Answer 8

Pay the ticket.....You had an expired tab.
Why fight it? No matter what date he put on.
Unless, you can get it done, before.
Why fight a ticket, regardless of the date...when you were really expired on your tab.

Answer 9

Dont mail anything in. Fight it, the court will throw it out for the mistake.