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ok so a quick background on this... I live in the suburbs and my girlfriend lives downtown. I was getting out of class today, and I get a call from her because she had locked herself out of her apartment in the cold with her two dogs. So I drive over there with my set of the keys to let her in, I double park, run upstairs, let her in, get the dogs under control, and leave. Except now there are 2 tickets on my car, in the span of like 7 minutes. One for a double park violation (obviously), and the other for not having a front plate.
This is where the problem comes in: In his rush to write the tickets before I got back downstairs, the cop marked the front plate ticket as a "Jeep" instead of a "Chevy", along with the fact that I received a written warning (fix-it ticket) from a state trooper about the front plate 3 days prior to getting this ticket.
The problem isn't the fact that I double parked, as far as I'm concerned I was in a rush and got unlucky that a cop drove by in that short span of time. whatever, I'll pay it. The problem is that I just got a fix-it ticket for my front plate on friday afternoon, and I thought there was a sort of grace period when it came to getting it, you know, FIXED. I know that the cop writing the tickets would have no way of knowing that I just received that ticket, since he didn't stick around to see if I was coming out anytime soon. So would the warning override the citation for it? Or is it basically once you have the warning you're fair game to get a ticket? Also, I've heard that if they mark the make of the car wrong (especially something like "Jeep" on a Camaro) then they can get thrown out?
This is where the problem comes in: In his rush to write the tickets before I got back downstairs, the cop marked the front plate ticket as a "Jeep" instead of a "Chevy", along with the fact that I received a written warning (fix-it ticket) from a state trooper about the front plate 3 days prior to getting this ticket.
The problem isn't the fact that I double parked, as far as I'm concerned I was in a rush and got unlucky that a cop drove by in that short span of time. whatever, I'll pay it. The problem is that I just got a fix-it ticket for my front plate on friday afternoon, and I thought there was a sort of grace period when it came to getting it, you know, FIXED. I know that the cop writing the tickets would have no way of knowing that I just received that ticket, since he didn't stick around to see if I was coming out anytime soon. So would the warning override the citation for it? Or is it basically once you have the warning you're fair game to get a ticket? Also, I've heard that if they mark the make of the car wrong (especially something like "Jeep" on a Camaro) then they can get thrown out?
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