Walk It Through: The Glovebox
A lapsed policy, a $75 infraction, and a pipe in the console.
Stopped for speeding, a driver opens the glovebox and finds the insurance card expired last month.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One stop. A search of the car, the passenger's own exposure, an SR-22 filing and a second uninsured offense are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- ArrestTaking a person into custody as the law allows, by a peace officer or a private person.
- FelonyA crime punishable by death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Unless a section sets another punishment, it carries up to five years, a fine of up to $50,000, or both.
- MagistrateThe judicial officer before whom a person arrested without a warrant is taken without unnecessary delay, with a complaint stating the charge.
- Search warrantA written order in the state's name, signed by a magistrate, judge or justice, directing an officer to search for and seize property. It must be executed and returned within fourteen days of its date.
- Drug paraphernaliaEquipment used, or possessed with intent to use, to grow, make, prepare, store, inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise take a controlled substance. Using or possessing it that way is a misdemeanor.
- MisdemeanorAny crime that is not a felony. Unless a section sets another punishment, it carries up to six months in county jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both.
- Liability insuranceThe insurance every owner of a vehicle registered and operated in Idaho keeps continuously. Driving without it is a $75 infraction the first time, and a misdemeanor on a second within five years.
- Mobile electronic deviceA phone or similar device, which no one may use while operating a motor vehicle, sitting at a light included, apart from hands-free, voice and one-touch uses and emergency calls.