Can a weather report help me in court if the officer said the weather was different then what the weather report said?
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Can a weather report help me in court if the officer said the weather was different then what the weather report said?
The police officer said it was not snowing out and the weather report says it was. The officer said on the record that he would have wrote in his police report if it was snowing out. The weather report says it was snowing during my arrest.
Asked on March 26, 2012 under Criminal Law, Maine
Answers:
S.L,. Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
You can use the police officer's mistake about the weather to impeach his credibiility. Introduce the weather report into evidence to impeach his credibility. Since he was wrong about the weather in his report, he may have made other mistakes in the paperwork he filed regarding the facts of your case which if there are mistakes in the paperwork, you could use that to further impeach his credibility. Impeaching the credibility of a witness will help your case by strengthening your defense at trial.
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