Question: What happens if the date and time on your citation is wrong? Can you get out of the offense?
Answer: Usually when there are mistakes on a ticket or citation, the errors can be overlooked or the citation can be amended so that they don't have much effect on the validity of the ticket or citation. An example in the civil area of numerous gramatical errors is when the calender year changes, like from 2001 to 2002 on December 31st. For a couple of weeks after the new year, people will accidently write last year's date. Often they are referred to as scrivener's errors. While this may cause things like checks to be technically 'stale', most banks will overlook the error.
The situation with tickets and citations is similar. Lots of tickets will be written with the wrong date just after new years. Unless the error is extreme, however, like getting a person's name completely wrong on the citation or perhaps a number of such errors being present, most such errors are not fatal to the pursuit of justice and prosecution will continue. You can try to defend on the grounds of minor errors, but usually, if the rest of the citation is proper, minor gramatical errors will not provide a defense.
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