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can commence in the justice and municipal court on the citation alone.

We can proceed on the citation alone and blah, blah, blah.

She started spitting off the title, I think Title 45 that said that the complaint can be issued on a citation alone or something like that.

based on just a citation alone, you can mail in a plea of guilty, not guilty, or no contest,

So he cannot proceed on the citation alone, no matter how much he wants to

They used the citation alone.

of a plea just upon the citation alone without this written waiver from the defendant that

The complaint is based on the citation alone.

Correct. And if they attempt to use 27.14d object, defense has not filed a written waiver allowing you to proceed upon the citation alone.

Therefore, you're not going to proceed upon citation alone.

an actual charging instrument, and we were going to proceed the trial off of the citation alone,

getting at the citation alone was going to stand as my charging instrument at which point in time

would be using Article 45 to prosecute you using the citation alone, at which point I notified

The citation alone can't do that. That's why it can't substitute for a complaint, but at the same time a complaint can't do that because it can't substitute for a valid charging instrument, which is an indictment or information according to both the Texas Constitution and the Code of Criminal Procedure.

And since the citation cannot invest the court with jurisdiction of the cause, no plea can be entered upon the citation alone

Nowhere is the citation authorized to invest the court with jurisdiction, but then again, neither is a complaint. But since the courts themselves have set the minimum bar to that of a complaint, the citation alone is insufficient to invoke it.

So they cannot use the citation alone unless you do that.

nowhere is there a court opinion that says the citation alone can invest a court with jurisdiction of a cause.

They prosecute from the citation alone and that's in the transportation code.

If they have an exemption, they can prosecute on the citation alone.

that the case can be prosecuted on the citation alone, but one of my callers Brett last night

A traffic citation can be prosecuted on the citation alone if there is a written waiver

they can prosecute on the citation alone,

Isn't there a way they can proceed on this citation alone?

the court can't do anything if they move forward on the citation alone they're acting without

section 45 that allows you to prosecute you based on the citation alone, and the citation is never

And I also need to, let's see, I also wanted to attack the sufficiency of notice attempting to prosecute the case, you know, with no complaint but with the citation alone.

I used criminal complaints based off of the first citation alone