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Don't beat yourself up over this. The cop is going to win - he is going to say he had a reason and in the end, the courts will support him. Concentrate on defense. Sadly, it's all you can do at this point. The cop probably was rogue, but unless you have a spare million dollars to fight your city hall, you are not going to win. |
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Stuart
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Let me see if I understand your question: a police officer caught your husband committing a crime, and you want to know if it was okay for the police officer to catch him?
Hm.
Have you considered switching to decaf? |
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The_Doc_Man
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Angel, it is perfectly legal for an officer to run tags on any car, based on these concepts:
1. You do not have the right to drive a car. (It is a legal privilege granted by law based on conditions such as passing a driver's test, operating a safe vehicle, paying for licenses for yourself and your car, etc. It is NOT a constitutonally protected right.)
2. Your license plates are in public view. An officer can look at anything on the outside of your car - such as the plates - at any time. Contents of a car? Different story.
3. The perennial cry of "I didn't do anything wrong" is so overworked that nobody cares any more. Your husband was violating limitations placed on his driving privileges, so he WAS doing something wrong. Saying he didn't do anything wrong just makes you look stupid for whining.
4. The presence of an officer trainee is not relevant to the legality of the senior officer's actions. |
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pissy_old_lady
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police can pull anyone over for routine check so basically they have the right to pick and choose for no reason |
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Dan H
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But there was something wrong, your tags were work only.
Even if there was nothing wrong, police can run the license tags any time they want. The plates are on the outside of the car and plainly visible and if they aren't they are supposed to be. |
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Tony R
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yes they can |
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Hagar
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No the officer didn't do anything wrong so stop making excuses, ignorance isn't an excuse. Your husband was caught driving when he shouldn't have been. No judge is going to excuse you or your husband. |
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Ruth C
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they can pull you over for anything -- maybe the car matched a reported stolen car in the area. also they do all these checkpoints, and that's the same thing happening. (Sounds like it was something like that, if there were other cars being pulled over.) |
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Charles WE
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Something else alerted the officer to your car. Quit complaining. |
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Crysta
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The truth is the officer can say anything. He can your husband drove over the line or anything. I am sorry and if you can show your husband was working or getting something for work maybe you can get away with it, even if its not true. Good luck with this and I dont like when cops try to make an example out of people. |
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whiner_cooler
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Still USING, huh?
Didn't you get the answer you wanted in your earlier post?
It was a random training stop and Hubby got caught, end of story.
Don't do the crime if . . . . . . . . . . |
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Bob
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Police can run your tags anytime.
That is how they find out if your car is stolen, expired tag, etc.
Depending upon the state or department the driver's license information may come back to the police officer when he does this.
The police offier may have known about the suspension before pulling your hub over.
If he did NOT know this, he should not have stopped him for training purposes. |
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Kenneth C
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Police can run tags for any reason in most states. License information is considered public. So the stop was valid. Don't blame the police because your husband can't follow the restrictions placed on his license.
Also, your husband was doing something wrong...He was driving when he wasn't supposed to. A much more serious offense then speeding or rolling through a stop sign. |
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cprucka
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They can do anything they want to do and get away with it. As for a site, try google |
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ospreyjay2001
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One doesn't really need a specific reason to run a tag, but when it came up that there were restrictions on it, that's reason enough to pull him over and at least inquire about it. |
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TxTopCop
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We can 'run your tag' anytime. That's how we find stolen cars, wanted felons, and people who don't have valid driver's licenses.
To say your husband 'wasn't doing anything wrong' is an invalid statement... if his license was suspended and he was given a 'work only' license, the officer did his job in stopping him and determining if the person is operating the vehicle in contrary to the order of the court.
To say that 'you didn't understand' the order of the court isn't a valid statement either. The court order is in black and white.. it is very specific.
I really enjoy YA, but I'm very tired of people who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions. Don't blame the officers for what happened. They did their job and did it well...
Your husband was in the wrong, not them. |
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ragingreb
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Just like anything else the govt does,they are pretty slow to upgrade their information on their warrant codes.They also routinely run license tag numbers on certain car types to see if they are stolen or have any warrants against the drivers. Its a hassle but if you were ripped off you would want them to use all means to recover your property.Also with all the AMBER alerts simply the color of a car, or having a child in your car could cause a pull over. |
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19G30
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I'd call it a good bust. |
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FELIKS D.
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The police can do whatever they want. You and your husband made a "mistake", so live with it. He was violating a court order. Take some responsibility instead of trying to blame your problems on others. |
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ornery and mean
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In New York State they now have a vehicle mounted camera that is capable of running every license plate in a crowded parking lot at a rate of 1 every 3 seconds ... they can run your license plate for any reason, no reason at all, or just because they have the time.
If New York has them (in use in small cities, not just NYC!) They will be coming to a jurisdiction near you soon. |
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spartan
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Yes, a police officer can run your license plate without reason. The officer does have to have probable cause to pull you over. Both of these are covered not under state law but under the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy for your license plate because it is displayed in plain view to the public.
As for the probable cause to pull your husband over, that's hard to answer because I was not in the police car with the officer to know what he was thinking or what he saw. Without hearing his account of the stop, i can't give a definite answer as to whether he had probable cause or not. I can say that when i run a plate, the registered owner's license information comes with it. If this is the case with the officer that made the stop, he would have seen that your husband's license was suspended. That information would have given the officer probable cause to pull the vehicle over.
I suggest that when you go to court, try to explain to the judge that you misunderstood the conditions of the suspension. It may or may not help. |
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Starte Christ
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Of course, and it demonstrates how out of control law enforcement has become. |
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Back at it
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It is a classic Terry case. Because of Terry V Ohio a Police Officer can stop a car based upon reasonable suspicion. This burden of proof is relatively low and because of how intricate the traffic laws are most police officers can find reasonable suspicion to pull you over. So yes the officer could pull your husband over assuming he had reasonable suspicion to believe your husband was committing or going to committ a crime. |
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yes that's what they do. ya know they have to meet their quota. |
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Elle
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Yes, the police officers cannot access your information with out resonable cause. everything they do is recorded and if they were ever questioned on it they would need a good enough reason to be held up in court. They cannot just do what they want. Use some common sense. |
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sormax
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OK for all you pigs that responded to this forum, I have reed all of the responses to what she ask and shame on you for talking to her like that she was not the one that got caught and if any one is going to buy your trash about it is the cops rights to run some ones tags with out a reason you need to move to rush this is the USA that stands for freedom no dictatorship. go sell your trash to some one else Just because i paid for them tags and put them on my car don't make it right for any one one to find out who or where i live, and another thing i called the DMV and told them i found a lost tag and i need the name of the person that lost it and thy told me thy was not allowed to give it to me because it was privet information. so keep your lies straight OK. it is one more thing for cops to spend tax payers money on and for the record because it is a law don't make it right in any state or country and if you keep up holding your none voted laws you will have a bad problem with people in the country look at Iran right now thy tried to do the same thing and not thousands of people died but millions so keep up the good work your pigs and watch what happens after you pissed off more people then you helped OK |
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