Mistakes on ticket--> VOID?

[Whitesupra94]

I just wanted to post this up...it happened a couple of years ago but im curious.

I was doing 27 in a 30 in my beater 85 nissan 300zx, and I happen to see a police officer. Checked my speed, saw that was under the speed limit, noted I was near a school, but that there were no kids and no busses around(they wouldnt get there til bout 3:30-3:45), so I kept on going. He proceeds to pull me over on the next road over :eek:. I was passing through a school zone, one without ANY flashing lights, just a sign that says school zone 3-4:15...and it was 3:10. So it was 27 in a 15mph school zone. Boy did that annoy me, mostly b/c I saw the officer and even checked my speed.

Anyways I paid the ticket b/c it wouldve been a hassle for me to come an hour to my parents to fight it, and he only wrote me for disobeying a sign...BUT, on the ticket he misplaced a decimal point in the distance VS speed calculation.

I calculated it out and according to what he wrote, I would have been going over 200mph.

Would I have been able to fight that and win in court? and is it true that if anything is wrong on a ticket, it gets dismissed?

Thanks!

[Sarge]

No because it would have been obvious to the court that if you were doing 200 mph you would have been charge with more then disobaing a sign. so the summons would be ammended in court to show the proper speed. THe only human errors I've seen the court dismiss a summons for has been when the officer put down the wrong date or location.