Q: Can it affect A plea agreement if the official police report includes a citation that doesn't match the original?
I entered into a stipulated continuance on a DUI which gives up my right to challenge the police report or have a jury trial if I do not comply with the terms. I needed the police report for a drug alcohol evaluation and when I reviewed it I noticed that the original citations were gone and they have been rewritten mainly because the original ones cited the RCW's incorrectly and had places where they have been crossed off and initialed by another officer. At the time my lawyer told me that that A sloppy citation wasn't anything that was going to get my case dismissed. But now it's not just a sloppy citation it's a completely different one with a different number and it just sites on it that it's referring to the case number that matches the citation number on my original copy but it does not include that original citation in it. I'm wondering if I have signed off my right to challenge that or if I can go back and challenging given that I just discovered it was falsified
A:
Generally, once you have entered your contract you have waived those types of challenges.
But if you want an answer to your questions, you should take all the documents to a lawyer and have them examined. It's possible that you still have a basis to challenge the case, but hard to tell without reading the actual documents.
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