City of Cleveland Heights v. Perryman

Defendants appeal from their separate municipal court convictions, arguing that their traffic tickets failed to define the alleged violations sufficiently, and could have deprived them of notice and an adequate opportunity to prepare their defenses. 1 Additionally, defendants assert that the municipal court improperly allowed the city prosecutor to amend their traffic citations on the day of trial. While we agree with defendants’ first proposition, we affirm the convictions, since the amendments were proper and no prejudice was demonstrated to either defendant by those amendments.

Perryman was…