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I'm curious how is it legal to pull over a vehicle based on the license plate without knowing who is actually driving the car? On a related note, my driving sc
by overdrivetg 11y ago
I'm curious how is it legal to pull over a vehicle based on the license plate without knowing who is actually driving the car?
On a related note, my driving school teacher told us if we're married register your spouse's car in your name and your car in theirs.
The logic being that spousal privilege prevents you from testifying against them if you ever get a red light/speeding or other automated ticket in the mail, and it seems like a good defense for these kind of plate-reader shenanigans as well - unless you are both wanted scofflaws, of course.
- DrScump 11y ago<the logic being that spousal privilege prevents you from testifying against them> In certain limited circumstances, a spouse cannot be compelled to testify against a spouse... but in what jurisdiction are witnesses being called by the prosecution for traffic infractions in the first place??
- overdrivetg 11y agoAs he explained it, they will only dismiss the ticket against you (the registered owner receiving the ticket in the mail) if you identify the actual driver - so you have to go in and roll over on the driver if you want to get out of the ticket. But if the driver is your spouse you can invoke spousal privilege and you both get off, IIRC. I'm not sure of the legal convolutions that lets you say "I can't identify that person due to spousal privilege" and not identify that person as your spouse but there it is.