In People v. Jean-Pierre (47 AD3d 445, 851 N.Y.S.2d 4 [1st Dep't, 2008]), officers saw that the defendant's New Jersey license plate bore a sticker with the number "03", assumed that the car's registration was from 2003, and concluded that the registration was out-of-date. In fact the sticker indicated that the car registration had been renewed in March. The Court concluded that the officers had made a reasonable mistake of fact, but the misunderstanding of New Jersey's registration display regulations could as readily be viewed as an error of law.