Legal Question in Traffic Law in Missouri

Effectively the statute of limitations has been satisfied, because the ticket was issued. That is what must be doen within a certain period of time. But, effectively, many judges will recall old failure to appear warrants, if the person appears and deals with the underlying charge. If this is you, you shoudl either Pro Se or with counsel get the ticket and warant added to the judge's docket in the jurisdiction in which you wre cited fo rillegla parking. Ask the judge to recall teh warratn and allow you to deal with the ticket itself. I have heard of people not doing this and then getting arrested on a twenty-year-old warrant. If such person got pulled over for speeding, and they ofice rwante dto ser4ach the vehciel, but did not have probable cause, arresting the person for the outstanding warrant would give them permission to inventory the contents of the vehicle. It seems that unless the Police suspect the person of committing a harsher crime, they would not want the headache of arresting someone on such an old warrant. But, why take the chance?

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