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Ticket improperly completed?

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yeut47

Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? OH-IO

Issued a traffic ticket (speeding)...

1) The officer (who is required to *sign* the ticket) did not... only a badge number and *printed* first initial and last name...

2) There is no box checked for how the speed was determined (radar, laser, etc).

http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/ruleamendments/documents/Amend. to Multi-Count Uniform Traffic Ticket (MUTT)(FINAL) (J. Cline).pdf

Ohio Traffic Rule 3D1: "A law enforcement officer who issues a ticket shall complete and sign the ticket..."

Would either of these invalidate the ticket, or at least make it easier to get knocked down?

(And yes, I am looking for that "fatal flaw"... have NO chance on the merits...)
 


Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? OH-IO

Issued a traffic ticket (speeding)...

1) The officer (who is required to *sign* the ticket) did not... only a badge number and *printed* first initial and last name...

2) There is no box checked for how the speed was determined (radar, laser, etc).

http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/ruleamendments/documents/Amend. to Multi-Count Uniform Traffic Ticket (MUTT)(FINAL) (J. Cline).pdf

Ohio Traffic Rule 3D1: "A law enforcement officer who issues a ticket shall complete and sign the ticket..."

Would either of these invalidate the ticket, or at least make it easier to get knocked down?

(And yes, I am looking for that "fatal flaw"... have NO chance on the merits...)
If that's how he "signs" all his tickets, then it's a signature.

I suspect you have no chance
 

tranquility

Senior Member
Making one's mark can be an "x". (It doesn't have to be an "x".) Anything meant to be a signature by the person making a mark IS a signature.

How speed determined is far more important. I'd find out in discovery.
 

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