News Front
June, 2001
Speaking In CodePortales, New Mexico--The state Supreme Court reprimanded a municipal judge for allowing traffic cops to draw smiling or frowning faces on citations. The doodles, which appeared only on the copy of the ticket given to the judge, were meant to inform the court of the driver's attitude during the stop. The justices ruled that the codes amounted to illegal communication between the officer and judge. Portales is not the first locality where the police have doodled. In 1999, an acade...
