Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida

I was stopped by my local police for the reason my license plate bracket blocked the word FLORIDA from plain view. subseuently, the friends vehicle i was driving and contraband was found and i went to jail. I am unable to find a Fl Statute concerning the license plate bracket. can you point me in the riht direction. I also found out that this same officer had been watching this vehicle and stped it sevral times using the same reason


Asked on 3/10/11, 1:54 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
William Gwaltney William W. Gwaltney, Attorneys at Law

Fl Statute 320.061 is the statute that addresses obscured license plates (it should have been written on your ticket); the part that concerns me more is the search of the vehicle. The violation of the statute is a non-criminal offense and does not give rise to arrest, which means there is no search incident to arrest which triggers. Now if you gave him permission to search the vehicle then all bets are off.

You should get an attorney. It is possible the stop was not valid, but the statute exists.

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Answered on 3/10/11, 2:27 pm


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