There is an ancient maxim of the law that states ignorantia juris non excusat, or “ignorance of the law does not excuse.”
… BOTH of these judges should be judicially disrobed, disbarred, and publicly castrated (no, I really didn’t mean to say castigated)…
“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:48
It is axiomatic that, as a general rule, most reasonable and intelligent people already believe that the vast majority of attorneys are scumbags, liars and thieves, and rightly so.
As an ex-deputy sheriff I can say with absolute certainty that this officer is totally clueless about the limits of his enforcement authority under the Texas Transportation Code, which is NONE, because I know the officers are NOT trained on those actual laws EVER and are simply told by word of mouth from their superiors…