Can someone please explain to me about the car plates?

The photo of the lawyer's car's license plate showed clearly readable, smooth letters and numbers. The doctored evidence photo purporting to show the license plate of Grant's SUV showed numbers and letters that were heavily pixelated under magnification, a giveaway to the fact that the image was digitally manipulated, that is, falsified.

You can hear gere say, "pixels" while looking

PHOTOSHOP. A rather obvious badly Photoshopped picture of the plate overlaid on the real plate. Nasty this digital age. Imagine that. Police doing something completely illegal.

They should make it a law that PHOTOSHOP or any digital imaging tool must put a visible mark somewhere on the image identifying that this was manipulated. Even if done badly. Then you'd have billions of images all over the world with PS or some such on them. So you could see just how much it's used.

(that last bit was just sarcasm, but something must be done to avoid these types of problems in future).

And PS or some type of tool is used on about 98% of the images out there.

In case you missed it, too, right when the detective gets the warrant he makes a call asking for a big favor. Right when Jimmy said what he did to the grand jury I knew the plates were the "favor" referenced earlier. Glad Miller figured it out. Can't stand our government and law enforcement thinking they get to just play by rules that we'd all be in prison for. Goes to show the ridiculous hypocrisy of the case. Here the detective wants to take down a rich jerk because they shouldn't be able to keep getting away with their garbage, and to take him down, he defecates all over the Constitution.

The more I think about it, this part really detracted from the quality of the film. For one thing, it was unnecessary. They already had several solid and honest pieces of evidence suggesting Jimmy was the getaway driver. Secondly, driving someone home isn't quite the heinous crime the writer would want us to believe. Third, Tim Roth way overplayed when he brought up the tri-borough "oops I mean RFK bridge". It was so forced as to be awkward. Fourth, nobody with ability to fudge the photo wold do it that badly. Fifth, how did Earl the lawyer get the grand jury evidence photo. I could go on.

As a fun little legal red herring it was enjoyable, but in the real world it's not plausible. They could easily squeeze Jimmy with what they had, no need for several people to jeopardize entire careers for a charge that was never to proceed since it was only a gambit to try and leverage cooperation to get Morgan.