Incorrect Summons Info Grounds for Dismissal?

[vadriver2005]

I received a Reckless Driving ticket in Virginia for virtually no reason. . . Circumstances not important. The trooper very clearly stated my eye color as "BR" when they are actually "BL" (i.e. blue). Is this grounds for dismissal? If a ticket is evidence against me, the evidence misrepresents me.

Grounds or not? Fight it on this technicality or the circumstances?

[racer72]

The ticket is not evidence, it is just a legal notice. And the error does not prevent you from presenting a valid defense to the citation and is not cause for dismissal.

[You Are Guilty]

I respectfully disagree. Clearly, the circumstances here are not important - little things like whether the OP actually was guilty of the offense are completely overridden by one of the most egregious mistakes I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing.

It is commonly known that eyes, like fingerprints, contain a patten unique to each individual. For the officer to make such a horrible mistake as to something so basic as eye color calls into question whether this poster was even the person driving at the time of this alleged incident. If I were in the OP's shoes, not only would I be contesting the ticket, I'd file a civil rights suit against the police department who wrote that ticket. Letting them get away with something like that is unconscionable - think about the next poor soul who gets such a bogus ticket! Have you no pity?





And please don't forget to post back with the results so that others have the proper encouragement to fight their tickets as well.

[lwpat]

I don't think I can take it anymore. OK, so the OP deserved it. Actually the more I think about it I agree with YAG.

I'm going to start selling colored contact lens to all licensed drivers. Then we could all drive as fast as we wanted.

[xavier2000]

But the real question is, did the glove fit?