The Occultist said:
I think Jet just wants to know what sort of mitigating circumstances would allow a misspelling of a name to make the ticket null and void. For that matter, I'd like to know as well.
Here's what I wrote:
Smiles said:
A misspelled name will not get you out of the citation. However, if you have some mitigating circumstances you didn't mention, it could be worth contesting [...]
Mitigating circumstances [for being cited for speeding]
you didn't mention. The OP only mentioned a misspelling on the ticket. The OP did not say where he was cited, what the roadway was like, conditions, whether the signage met the statutes for his locale, what method the officer used to determine he was speeding - no other information. There could be any number of other unstated circumstances that could make it worthwhile to contest the ticket. Contesting the ticket in and of itself could be worthwhile.
I could have begun my second sentence with, "However, if you have some
other mitigating circumstances, it could be worth contesting [...]". No matter which way it was written, I think it's clear that I was not referring to the misspelling, certainly in combination with the first sentence.
When I was a teenager, I was cited for going 57mph in a 30mph zone. I had just pulled out of my driveway. If my name had been misspelled, I might have wondered if that simple error would have dismissed the ticket without going through the muss and fuss of proving the officer was incompetent. That might have been all I asked about, too, assuming that no one would believe my evidence versus a cop's testimony.
(I grew up on that street. It was a 35mph zone, not 30mph; there was no way I could have been moving 57mph coming out of my driveway in my POS Ford Fairmont; I was radared from so far away that the radar cone had probably measured the speed of the trees. Fortunately, at the time I lived with a government expert on radar.)