JustM654456
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
South Carolina is the name of my state it was in the city of charleston I was given this ticket.
On 10/4/13 I was getting out of a long taxi ride from a concert I had attended with four friends in charleston. We had to wait a while to get a cab and it took us a long time to get back to our motel as well. We all had to use the restroom and my 3 friends went upstairs to use the restroom in our motel bathroom and I had decided I could no longer hold it. I had told my friends to go on ahead and that I would pee outside so I began to walk behind my car when a state police officer slammed the gas on his vehicle and pulled behind me. He asked me my name and room # which I politely answered for him. Then he asked to see my ID and when I grabbed my ID from my wallet and handed it to him he slapped cuffs on me like mid forearm extremely tight and told me to stand still in front of his car while he ran my id. I have marks on my bruises and red cuff lines on my wrist still today 10/7/13. Eventually he came out and patted me down removing everything from my pockets including my cell phone which he never returned to me. He asked if I had any weapons and being a little frusterated I jokingly said I had a grenade in my right pocket...he was not amused and started shouting do you want to go to jail tonight over and over so I decided it was best to keep quiet from then on.
So anyways fast forward he gives me a ticket Violation- Unlawful urination and a mandatory court date on 10/8/13 at 8:30am in charleston, sc. Violation sec 21-90.
Is there anything I can do? I assume he heard me tell my friends I would go outside but I didn't even get the chance before he came and arrested me. It was at 2:30am in a secluded parking lot off the highway.
Whats the best way to go about this? He wrote 262.00$ on the bottom of the ticket which seems pretty outrageous in my opinion. I'd really like to make sure this does not go on my record as I was just hired for an amazing job that had just got back to me with my background results and gave me a final offer. On their background check application it says if there's anything I didn't list and I get the job and they later find out I could be let go. So my main goal is to just make sure this isn't on my record and preferably not have to pay 262$. I was never read my miranda rights but I can't remember him asking me any incriminating questions like "were you urinating outside in public" or anything so I'm not sure if my miranda rights were violated or not. I read that if I felt they were I needed to file a motion before the trial date...but I wont know weather or not he says he asked me and I said yes or not until the trial tomorrow morning.
South Carolina is the name of my state it was in the city of charleston I was given this ticket.
On 10/4/13 I was getting out of a long taxi ride from a concert I had attended with four friends in charleston. We had to wait a while to get a cab and it took us a long time to get back to our motel as well. We all had to use the restroom and my 3 friends went upstairs to use the restroom in our motel bathroom and I had decided I could no longer hold it. I had told my friends to go on ahead and that I would pee outside so I began to walk behind my car when a state police officer slammed the gas on his vehicle and pulled behind me. He asked me my name and room # which I politely answered for him. Then he asked to see my ID and when I grabbed my ID from my wallet and handed it to him he slapped cuffs on me like mid forearm extremely tight and told me to stand still in front of his car while he ran my id. I have marks on my bruises and red cuff lines on my wrist still today 10/7/13. Eventually he came out and patted me down removing everything from my pockets including my cell phone which he never returned to me. He asked if I had any weapons and being a little frusterated I jokingly said I had a grenade in my right pocket...he was not amused and started shouting do you want to go to jail tonight over and over so I decided it was best to keep quiet from then on.
So anyways fast forward he gives me a ticket Violation- Unlawful urination and a mandatory court date on 10/8/13 at 8:30am in charleston, sc. Violation sec 21-90.
Is there anything I can do? I assume he heard me tell my friends I would go outside but I didn't even get the chance before he came and arrested me. It was at 2:30am in a secluded parking lot off the highway.
Whats the best way to go about this? He wrote 262.00$ on the bottom of the ticket which seems pretty outrageous in my opinion. I'd really like to make sure this does not go on my record as I was just hired for an amazing job that had just got back to me with my background results and gave me a final offer. On their background check application it says if there's anything I didn't list and I get the job and they later find out I could be let go. So my main goal is to just make sure this isn't on my record and preferably not have to pay 262$. I was never read my miranda rights but I can't remember him asking me any incriminating questions like "were you urinating outside in public" or anything so I'm not sure if my miranda rights were violated or not. I read that if I felt they were I needed to file a motion before the trial date...but I wont know weather or not he says he asked me and I said yes or not until the trial tomorrow morning.
