Q: Can police see your warrant if they run the license plates of a vehicle that is not registered under your name?
I got pulled over for expired tags. Police beat me up badly and didnt know my neighbor's cameras caught the whole thing. I didn't know I had a warrant and the police officer never mentioned anything about me having a warrant either. Now that I'm fighting the charges, they're trying to say that they stopped me because my warrant came up when they ran the plates of the vehicle that belongs to my mother in law. So they're trying to say that since I had a warrant, that whatever they did was reasonable.
A: You are right in that it does not make sense that they would find a warrant for you based on looking up someone else's license plates. There are a lot of different reasons police pull people over. Here, if the tags were actually expired, that is a legitimate reason. However, sometimes a police officer will recognize the driver as someone they have dealt with before and then try to find a reason, or make one up, for pulling over the vehicle. One would have to look at the police report to find more information.
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more info needed.
However, it does not sound realistic they would see a warrant for you if they were running plates of a car that did not belong to you.
when you hire a lawyer or have one appointed for you be sure to mention that as it might be the basis for a 1538.5 motion to suppress evidence and ultimate dismissal.
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