What's interesting is that the Calif. handbook says nothing about the ID having to have the person's signature. However they do have to sign their name to your journal so I would assume his name isn't "Without Prejudice" He sounds like a wanna be "survivalist" type person, but doesn't know how to properly fight the system.
Normally "without Prejudice" is signed before their name then they do sign their name after it however. In my experience, living out in the boonies, I have run across this a few times. Sometimes they use "under duress', because they are protesting their having to sign it. But they still have their signature on the ID, so it gives me something to compare. Years ago, a member of my gun club told me to sign my concealed carry permit that way and in fact all my government issued documents , but my ex-wife was a sheriffs' dispatcher and when a cop runs across something like that, it sends up a red flag. Of course, that was many years ago, so I just sign like a regular person. Don't want to light up any red lights.
But I digress. My attorney has always advised me that if what I am being ask to do as a notary sounds hinky, don't do it. So if something just doesn't seem right, I find an excuse not to do it. (Damn, I forgot my journal ect.) even if everything else appears in order. |
