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by srothstein
Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:12 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Pulled over by Leo's wife...
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Re: Pulled over by Leo's wife...

Any citizen can file charges on you in municipal court, as mentioned. And as mentioned, they need to be able to identify you - not the car, but the driver.

But, just since you mentioned it, I will point out that drag racing on the street is now a class B misdemeanor. Some other offenses about schools are also class B (like passing a school bus). In the case of a class B misdemeanor (well, also true for class C but more likely in worse offenses), an officer may investigate and file charges based on the witness statements. The statements are not hearsay, but the testimony of an eyewitness. Anyone can testify about what they saw. Hearsay, which is generally considered not admissible (though a lot of it can be used), is when a person testifies to something they did not see themselves. This would be something like if the LEO in this case wrote a ticket and then testified that he wrote it because his wife told him that she had seen you speeding.

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