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  • 07-09-2008, 04:32 AM
    Asmedious
    Street Name on Ticket Doesn't Match Location of Alleged Violation
    My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: New York.

    I received a ticket for failure to obey a traffic device (stop sign). However, on the ticket where it says, place of violation (or something of that nature) the street name is where I got pulled over after I turned off of the street where the stop sign is actually located. Note that the stop sign is at least fifteen feet from the corner of where I got pulled over, so it can't be claimed that it is right at the intersection of both streets.

    Once in court, if I call the officer to testify, and he states that I failed to stop at a stop sign on street "A", can I object stating that it is irrevelent at this time, since according to the ticket, I am charged with failure to obey a traffic device on street "B"?
  • 07-10-2008, 06:36 AM
    LawResearcherMissy
    Re: Street Name on Ticket Doesn't Match Location of Alleged Violation
    You can certainly try.

    Whether it will fly with the judge or not is something else altogether.
  • 07-10-2008, 08:48 AM
    aaron
    Re: Street Name on Ticket Doesn't Match Location of Alleged Violation
    Is there a stop sign at the intersection identified on the ticket? If not, I would have to consider taking photographs of the intersection to establish the absence of a sign, and presenting them to the court as evidence that the cited violation could not possibly have occurred as described. It's exceptionally unlikely that the officer will have any specific recollection of the ticket or where it occurred, beyond what is written on the ticket itself.
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