False citation with errors

[Confused198]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MICHIGAN

 

[Confused198]

I got a ticket yesterday for passing a school bus that was stopped. I was heading the same direction as the bus on a 4 lane divided highway. The bus was pulled onto a side road on the right hand side. Stop sign out(seen only after I passed it) and no lights. I was in the far left lane in a turn around. Cop was sitting behind a bank sign doing radar(he told me this) two drives before where the bus stopped that completely blocks view. He wrote the ticket and said I saw the lights and the bus was on the left shoulder. He also checked the box saying this is written to the best of my knowledge under penalty of perjury etc.

Is there anything I can do about this, or should I just pony up and pay somebody's wage for the week? I did find that it is illegal for buses to make a stop on the left side of a highway. So will that help the case with the fact that he knowingly lied at least once, or will they overlook that as an error or typo?

 

[CdwJava]

I am not entirely sure by your description where the officer was, or what you alleged he did that he lied about.

Ultimately, you do not know what the officer said. Proving he lied will be difficult. Showing that he might have been in error as to what he saw might be possible, but that will depend upon your testimony and his. What he wrote may not be nearly as relevant as what he testifies to, and he may well testify as to making an "oops" on his notes on the cite.

 

[Confused198]

I was pulling out of a hospital drive, he was in the driveway maybe 20 feet after that with a huge bank sign against the right side of his vehicle. The bus was pulled in the road another 120 feet or so past him on the right. 1.) I never said I saw the lights on the bus because I didn't see any 2.) The bus was on the road on the right side, not the left shoulder. There actually is no left shoulder at that area because it is a third lane for doing the Michigan left.

 

[Confused198]

And I know what the officer said as he wrote it on the ticket and checked the box saying that was the sequence of events to the best of his knowledge.

 

[FlyingRon]

What is on the citation has little meaning. Mistakes are allowed there. What matters is what the officer says in court. You seem to admit to the violation but are trying to win on some imagined technicality. Cops are allowed to hide behind signs, oldest trick in the book. It doesn't mean they can't see what's going on.

If the bus broke the law, it doesn't exculpate you. As your mommy told you at a young age, two wrongs do not make a right.

I'm failing ot see in the Michigan acts how stopping on the left. There is a thing about them making certain stops on the right without the red lights, just the yellow ones, but it is HIGHLY restricted and not obligatory.

 

[Confused198]

I never admitted to the violation. I clearly stated the bus was pulled onto the side road on the right hand side. I was still on the highway.

 

[Confused198]

I know he couldn't see because I went back to where he was and could not see a blessed thing to the right due to the sign and huge amount of trees. I know very well that officers are allowed and will hide behind signs, bridges, other cars, and whatever else they can find. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just worked up over this. Bus was pulled over on a side road, no lights, I passed it on the main highway and somehow wind up with a ticket. Then the officer lies on position of bus and you guys are saying he can reverse what he says in court and everything is honky Dory even though the statement must be made in admittance to commiting perjury, and everything is justified? Does our law system really work that way? I'm sorry, this whole thing is getting me a little irritated.