Parking Ticket Question

[OPD22]

Hello all, my friend just received two parking tickets in the city. Apparently the ticket writer wrote down the wrong color of the car on one of the tickets, and the wrong license plate number on the other ticket. He then called me to ask if because of the ticket NOT being exact to the T with his car, is the ticket then null and void. I would assume yes, but I didn't want to give him the wrong answer and then have a bench warrant be out for his arrest! Any information would be greatly appreciated!

[L-1]

Both are technical errors. Your friend can plead not guilty and ask for a hearing. When he points out the errors, the judge will ask the citing officers if they having anything to say. They will ask the court's permission to amend the citations to enter the correct information. The court will grant their request.

Now that the procedural issues are out of the way, the court will ask you friend if he was parked in the locations and under the circumstances described in the citations. Unless he has proof his car was someplace else at the time, he's going to look rather foolish.

[andy5746]

On the one with the wrong license plate - no wories, won't affect your car

On the other one, "Color" is sometimes subjective. I say grey, you say silver; I say blue, you say aqua... Now if it's bright yellow and I wrote black, then I'd have to wonder...

[jakflak]

The only way he would get a warrant is if he didn't respond to them at all. Tickets don't just 'go away' even if they're wrong. The judge has to make them go away.

[EOD_K-9]

Ask to ammend the ticket? In DC, if anything is wrong, 99.99% of the time it is dismissed. WOW