In Texas the “visibility” requirements for license plate lamps are found in Sec. 547.322(f) & (g).
There is a maxim of logic that states “Correlation does not equal causation,…”
… it allows… the officer AND the prosecutor to… decide… what legally constitutes “evading/evasion” in order to charge and prosecute…
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.
The TV show “Breaking Bad” does have some useful information in it, and not just for drug kingpins.
I keep a folder on my computer titled “Facebook Idiots” where I store screenshots of every conversation like this one…
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.
Therefore, when a prosecutor objects on the grounds that “the officer isn’t required to know that,” they are actually admitting that their witness is legally and factually incompetent to testify to those facts because they lack personal knowledge, and would be both committing perjury and violating the admissibility and hearsay rules by answering.
Why do you think it is that the entirety of the United States and state Constitutions, as well as the concepts and importance of every individual’s inherent and fundamental rights and liberty as ensconced within the history of our earliest American law, are not being taught to our children throughout their entire educational process?”