acherrypuff
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? California
I was cited by a police officer in SF back in Jan for running over a stop-sign (which I know I did make a complete stop) . I had my arraignment, and I've scheduled my trial already after I got a chance to see the police report. I noticed the officer has missed quite a couple important pieces of information:
(1) The officer identified me as "he" 4 times throughout the whole report, while I am indeed a female. My question is if the police officer allowed to use "he" as a general time to refer to the cited person? Or the report needs to be gender-specific? If so could I use it as a challenge for my trial?
(2) The officer failed to include the fact that there was a passenger (whom will be my witness) in my car on his report. He also failed to mention the number of cars that were also using the intersection during the incidence. Could I use that as a challenge?
(3) I made a word document that includes all things happened when i was cited a few days after I was cited. The document has never been modified and the creation and modified dates are clearly shown on the property. I am just curious am I allowed to bring my laptop to the court room to show it to the judge?
(4) The officer said on the report that he was on duty that day and he parked his car right at the corner while he was on duty. However, me and my boyfriend came back to the same spot 1 hour later that day to take pictures for preparation of the trial, and the police car was actually parked 3-4 houses down from the corner when we were there. My boyfriend has taken numerous pictures of all views of the corner, and the pictures clearly show the police car wasn't in view at all. Would it be worthy for us to show these pictures during the trial?
Many thanks for answering my questions~ Any advices on how I should do or approach for my case will also be highly appreciated.
I was cited by a police officer in SF back in Jan for running over a stop-sign (which I know I did make a complete stop) . I had my arraignment, and I've scheduled my trial already after I got a chance to see the police report. I noticed the officer has missed quite a couple important pieces of information:
(1) The officer identified me as "he" 4 times throughout the whole report, while I am indeed a female. My question is if the police officer allowed to use "he" as a general time to refer to the cited person? Or the report needs to be gender-specific? If so could I use it as a challenge for my trial?
(2) The officer failed to include the fact that there was a passenger (whom will be my witness) in my car on his report. He also failed to mention the number of cars that were also using the intersection during the incidence. Could I use that as a challenge?
(3) I made a word document that includes all things happened when i was cited a few days after I was cited. The document has never been modified and the creation and modified dates are clearly shown on the property. I am just curious am I allowed to bring my laptop to the court room to show it to the judge?
(4) The officer said on the report that he was on duty that day and he parked his car right at the corner while he was on duty. However, me and my boyfriend came back to the same spot 1 hour later that day to take pictures for preparation of the trial, and the police car was actually parked 3-4 houses down from the corner when we were there. My boyfriend has taken numerous pictures of all views of the corner, and the pictures clearly show the police car wasn't in view at all. Would it be worthy for us to show these pictures during the trial?
Many thanks for answering my questions~ Any advices on how I should do or approach for my case will also be highly appreciated.
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