There is an ancient maxim of the law that states ignorantia juris non excusat, or “ignorance of the law does not excuse.”
In Texas the “visibility” requirements for license plate lamps are found in Sec. 547.322(f) & (g).
… BOTH of these judges should be judicially disrobed, disbarred, and publicly castrated (no, I really didn’t mean to say castigated)…
… it allows… the officer AND the prosecutor to… decide… what legally constitutes “evading/evasion” in order to charge and prosecute…
“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.
Always be thinking ten moves ahead of them at all times, not just when you think about it.
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…
SB 971 created an entirely new form of license TERMINOLOGY (driver’s license), BUT, it DID NOT actually create ANY new form of license, it was only made to APPEAR that it had done so.
You are once again attempting to equivocate or convert the definition or context of a term or phrase legally defined in one statute dealing with a totally DIFFERENT object within the law…