Failure To Surrender Insurance Card
Hey all, new to this forum. Need some advice. So a friend of mine (lets call him MC) drove his brother's car while his brother was overseas for the summer. Little did he know that the brother's insurance and vehicle plate expired in June. MC was pulled over and got three tickets:
1) Failure to surrender insurance card
2) Driving with expired plates
3) Failure to produce license
Not exactly sure of the charges, just going on memory... The problem is that the car was not insured. But he does have a license. He wants to plead not guilty and hope the prosecutor can drop some of the tickets or something.
My question is, if MC decides to fight the tickets, can the officer check and find out he had no insurance on the car and subsequently charge MC with the BIG no insurance ticket? ie $5k fine?
TIA