QUESTION
Is it legal for your neighbor to videotape you while your driving and use it against you?
Asked on May 13th, 2016 on Criminal Law - Michigan
More details to this question:
My spouse has a suspended license and our neighbors videotaped him, from their yard, driving. The officer then came and issue him a ticket for driving on suspended license. The officer never witnessed him driving and he was nowhere near a vehicle. Is this legal and can the video be used against him in the court of law?
1 ANSWER
You see videos made by the public as the basis of criminal prosecutions all the time. Think Rodney K8ng and any other time police get caught on tape assaulting a suspect. No different just because it is a neighbor doing the taping. After all you were on a public roadway & by its very name there is no expectation of privacy there. Actually you don't even need the video to be prosecuted. A witness could have filed the complaint based just on what they saw.
Answered on May 31st, 2016 at 7:06 AM