Do Police Reports Expire ?

Me and two friends did some stuff to the schools most hated teacher this summer. Now he is threatening to take it to court but, isn't sure what he wants to do yet. Well, actually we really did nothing. I assume the cops wrote the reports to shut him up, me and one friend went up and requested copies of the reports as teacher said he wants one, we didn't know they cost $ so screw him we got our own. for now, gotta wait for them to get them in though.

First report : Friend was driving (kid with Ex cop car) got on it in front of his house, it threw some gravel. He called the cops and blah blah blah, stupid.

Second Report: Other friend drove buy, clipped his garbage can, it fell over and he called the cops for that. He told us his neighbor was pointing a gun at us, lmao go for it.

Also, when I tried to get an estimate of the report cost she told me it depends on the length of the report, she asked what it was for and I only said we knocked a garbage can over and she was just laughing. She thought it was funny a person took the time to call the cops because their can got knocked over.

So my question, do the reports expire, like. After a certain date is he not able to use them against us ? Also, since I wasn't driving and everything was driving related, am I free to go or does that stupid, you're a passenger thing count still ?

Hey, I was just the passenger, it's not like I drove over there and did something, I was just chillin in the passenger seat.

So that does still count ? Even though everything was driver related, nobody exited the vehicle, we all still get it ? I'd tell him to go  himself but I don't want to have him come down hard on my friends who were driving.

It doesn't surprise me that this is how you spend your free time.

oreomann33 wrote: It doesn't surprise me that this is how you spend your free time.

Well, I could be liked the rest of the kids at my school, getting high and drunk and then rolling my vehicle while trying to drive home.

Ford wrote: oreomann33 wrote: It doesn't surprise me that this is how you spend your free time. Well, I could be liked the rest of the kids at my school, getting high and drunk and then rolling my vehicle while trying to drive home.

If you kill yourself and no one else, I'm all for it.

A report is just a report.  A piece of paper.  It doesn't "expire".  Police departments have document disposal policies, but my suspicion is that they basically keep everything forever.

But that's the wrong question.  The correct question is what the statute of limitations is.

In your case, there are two - criminal and civil.  For a civil torts claim, the statute of limitation is typically two years.  For criminal matters it varies, but certainly more than two years.

If criminal charges are to be brought, they can probably be brought for a long time.  If the guy wants to sue, he probably has a couple of years to do so.

rambino...i as going to bring up SOL, but you did it a lot better than i would've. hands down

a drunk or high kid never threaten a life of a teacher >_> 

property damage, intentional infliction of emotional distress - I'm sure he could think of something.