If a police officer pulled me over for no tag light but my tag light was on the whole time, how canI beat this ticket?
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If a police officer pulled me over for no tag light but my tag light was on the whole time, how canI beat this ticket?
I got my car from GA;they gave me a tag good thrives 01/22/11. I drove home to SC and got pulled over as I was turning into my parking lot. The officer claimed I had no tag light, but i showed her it was on an she still gave me a ticket. Then she called in the car and found it to be uninsured and gave me another ticket. If the tag light was the reason she pulled me over, and that was false, is it possible that the other ticket is irrelevant also? I had just gotten the car and drove it home and was going to put the insurance on that day but the officer was belligerent and racist.
Asked on January 7, 2011 under General Practice, South Carolina
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
You have a lot of issues going on here. What I think that you are intimating is that you feel that you were racially profiled and that they pulled you over for a bogus reason. When they pulled you over though they ran your plate and found out that you had no insurance and issued a ticket. No, I do not believe that the ticket would be in any way dismissed. It is not the same as if they pulled you over for the bogus light, found drugs in your car and arrested you and you were trying to set aside the search as illegal because there was no probable cause to pull you over. It was a ticket. But I would fight the tail light ticket regardless. The insurance ticket, well, you are on the hook for that one I think. Good luck.
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