Q: Can my citation be dismissed if the officer put a badge number that’s not their real badge number?
Today, I got a speeding citation in Jefferson county, Arnold, the officer put down a completely random badge # not theirs on the ticket and I have a video of them stating their name and badge number and it doesn’t match the citation in any way. Is this grounds to get it dismissed?
A: Almost any error on a speeding ticket can be corrected at any time by either the police officer or the Prosecuting Attorney. If the description of where the traffic stop occurred was completely wrong, that might be grounds to get the ticket dismissed, but other simple errors are not.
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