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cdwjava
There is no statute on the matter.
An error on the date of the event CAN be an issue if it goes to trial and he testified inaccurately. However, courts tend to be lenient on this as it is obvious that the two of you met even if the officer wrote the wrong date down. The date of the event is also not an element of the offense, the location (for jurisdictional purposes) is more important.
Errors in street addresses are common depending on how the information is obtained (via radio, old address, bad transcription by the officer, etc.) and since it is not an element of the offense, not usually an issue.
The wrong license plate number can also be a matter of poor transcription as can the arraignment date. Depending on what he wrote down compared to what the arraignment date was, it's likely no big deal ... unless you failed to show in court.
You can certainly use these things to try and show reasonable doubt to the court by arguing that the officer's attention to detail that day was poor. But, if the facts of the contact as testified to by the officer are such that such detail may not be necessary, then this, too, may be of little impact to the court.
In general clerical matters are not a great concern to the court. But, judges all have their own ideas and it is possible that one might decide that the officer made too many blunders.
- Carl