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Question

I got stopped and given two tickets.The tickets both have another middle name not mine. The cop made the mistake so I am thinking they can't re-write the tickets because they are already written. If they do that would be double jeopardy. Since they are in another name "not mine I don't have to pay for them." So my question is, Can I fight them over this in court?

Answer 1

No. There is such a thing as unintentional error or omission, which does not materially change the details of the complaint.  You would not get out of it either if your last name happened to be misspelled.  None of that changes in any way the facts of the case.

Answer 2

Police officers are allowed to make mistakes, as long as they are acting "in good faith."  If the other identifying information is correct, i.e., social security number, operators license number, physical description, etc, and the critical information of the violation is also correct, then the ticket is valid, and you will not succeed in fighting it over a simple human error.

Answer 3

How do you figure it would be double jeopardy?  If the tickets are legitimate, regardless of the middle name, you have to pay them. If the middle name makes the tickets illegitimate, then they don't count at all.  That means rewriting them to have the correct middle name ISN'T double jeopardy.

But no, sorry, you're out of luck.  Cops are only human and the laws allow for them to make mistakes in writing down names on tickets.  

You have to be a lot smarter than that to find a loophole you can crawl through.

Answer 4

Double jeopardy is being tried for the same crime twice in a legal system. Unfortunately you will waste your time fighting this because they are your tickets. Pay your tickets or they will issue a warrant for your arrest.

Answer 5

The court system would just have to amend the tickets to show the right information, which is not re-writing the ticket.  This would not be double jeopardy.  You can't fight it on this basis as they will just fix it in the system.