Officer: We typed in the wrong plat number and... DA: Hold up, you typed in the wrong plate number Officer: Yes DA: How often does that happen Officer: Not much DA: what do you think the odds are that you come up with a stolen car Officer: I don't know DA: Did the description of the stolen car match the suspects car Officer: No DA: then why did you keep pursuing him
This happens all the time. Remember when the college football players (TU or A&M) got pulled over for not signalling 100 feet before turning?
what happens all the time, typing in wrong plates and coming up with mythatical stole cars stop patronizing me. its ridiculous and you know it and I don't what point you're trying to make. do other races besides black get shot all the time by cops
this is a jury trial, if your point is cops make ridiculous claims all the time, that doesn't mean they should be accepted by the public
omg you are the most defensive person on the planet blinded by your own hatred for anything I say. I was suggesting that stopping one cop does nothing we have to change the system. patronizing you? Seriously?
let's see....6 digits with 35 options each (A-Z, 1-9). Repeats are allowed: 35^6 = >1.8 billion total possible permutations. 17.5 million cars registered in texas 95,429 cars stolen in Texas. Just randomly typing in license plates means only 0.95% (<1/100) of the time will you even find a car registered in texas. To find a stolen car that way makes the odds .0052% (~5/100000). disclaimer: I have not done this since college...
yes, with the, gee golly wiz beaver, it happens all the time. what's your point, it happens all the time, so we should just bend over and take it. I understand cops pull people over all the time and things get escelated. but there is no justification for singling someone out to the point you have to make up some dumb ass excuse about typing in an incorrect plate numbe
Until we change the system you have to bend over and take it. They have the power and they love to use and abuse it. I'm not a criminal and never been arrested but I have been in cuffs a few times. If you don't play their game bad stuff happens. This is how it works when you are oppressed.
Let me preface this by saying I don't know the answer. But if there really was a stolen car with a license plate one digit off, and after the fact the police were able recount exactly what the error was and right away show the stolen car that they claimed their search returned - i.e. if the stolen car wasn't "mythical" how does that affect your judgment? When I was in high school, I had my car stolen out of the school parking lot. When I gave the license to the police officer, I transposed two digits, and the officer became all suspicious because the mistaken plate I'd given him for my stolen car was the plate number for a completely unrelated stolen Jaguar.
its funny, that should have been asked in the trial also. and I'm assuming since these are computers, they don't need to "recount" makes me wonder if the DA was actually trying to convict this guy
What if it was asked at trial and it turns out that the police really did put in the wrong number and really did get back a return for a stolen plate? What if there is proof that it happened as they claimed?
otto with all due respect I'm not going down this road because its a pretty freakin ridiculous claim, and I think you know that also I've been pulled over at least ten times in my 19 years of driving and has no officer ever been that incompetent and if you really want to go down this ridiculous road why don't you start a poll and ask if anyone has every been pulled over and the copped typed the wrong plate number and oh yeah, did they calim you were driving a stolen car?
That's fine. Searching on the trial, I just discovered a Houston Chronicle courtroom account that they did have a plate number, and it was for a black Nissan 4 door SUV of the same model as Tolan's but one year different. This was entered in evidence at trial. But by all means, believe what you want.
