Quote Quoting RHbandit
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So he sticks it to me and impounds my car and charges me with reckless driving.
What code sections were you cited for?

What code section as used to authorize the tow?

Fortunatly 11 days after my car was towed I talked to the main Sargent at the ploice station and explained what all happened in great detail and he released my car 2/3rds early.
Lucky you. But, there are a number of reasons why he might have released it or been compelled to release it, this does not mean that the sergeant disagreed with the tow.

So today I look at the ticket cause the court date is soon and I see that the officer wrote that the posted speed limit is 40....but it's actually 45. He put my speed down as 80+ with it being a visual estimate only. Obviously he isn't trained to do traffic stops cause he is undercover.
First, he's not "undercover." If he were, he wouldn't be doing ANY stops. He is apparently assigned to either an investigative or administrative assignment, not patrol.

Second, one promotes to such a position. That means that at one point in time he did regularly conduct traffic enforcement stops and may very well have been trained in the use of radar. Now, while a court might accept any experienced officer's visual estimate of speed, an officer trained in radar also has formal training in the visual estimation of speed. So, the officer that stopped you may very well have experience and formal training in the use of visual estimation.

I know there are certain things that if written down wrong will get the whole thing thrown out.
There is very little in the way of clerical errors that can be leveraged to get the citation dismissed. Writing the wrong speed limit is not going to be one of them. What it might do is lower the level of the base fine ... but, the difference between 35 and 40 MPH will not change the fine at all.

I do know that speding alone isn't enough to get a reckless driving ticket.
True enough. But, unless you have read the report, you don't know what else he articulated.

On top of all that like I said, the Sargent saw the case file and felt I had been punnished enough already and let me have my car back WAY early.
And the sergeant said that? Really?

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Quote Quoting lawlessca
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motion to suppress the evidence on the ground that the officers' violation of section 40800 rendered the vehicle stop illegal.
If he is operating an unmarked vehicle, he is in an administrative or investigative assignment and thus NOT engaged in traffic enforcement as a main function of his duties ... as articulated by others already. This is a non-starter.

There is possibility that Officer was out of his Jurisdiction. You will need good lawyer to suppress officer's testimony. If Officer gave you ticket out of his Jurisdiction, he need to call local cop to issue you citation.
Also as stated, officers have jurisdiction throughout the state of CA for any public offense observed. There are a host of other atters involved including cross-signed letters approving enforcement within a jurisdiction, etc.