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Seeking Advice On How To Proceed - Failure To Stop 136(1)(a)
Hello everybody,
I have a court date scheduled for next week (week of October 5th) for a ticket I received in fall 2008 for failing to stop at a stop sign. Upon receipt of my ticket, I opted to challenge my ticket at trial for two reasons: 1) the location, as it was hand-written on my ticket, does not exist (i.e., on the ticket, the location where the offence was allegedly committed appeared to say 51B John Street; however, upon receipt of my printed Notice of Trial I realized that the location was S.B. John Street (for southbound John St.) - the officer's handwriting made it look like 51B); and 2) the officer never looked at my vehicle registration, and the year of the vehicle on the ticket is incorrect (it says the vehicle was a 2008 model, while my model is 1997).
Based on the above, I have several questions: 1) I have not yet requested disclosure, as I did not realize that I could do so until very recently; at this point, the trial date is so close that I don't think I will receive the documents in time, so how should I proceed? Can I request for my trial to be re-scheduled since I need more time to prepare my defence?; 2) Is incorrect information on the ticket sufficient enough to have the charges dropped?
Thanks in advance for anybody's comments.