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From the beginning, it sounds like he's presenting this to a group of people invited by his lawyer, and the lawyer took care of the actual ticket resolution.

Did you appeal? You can always appeal your first court hearing. The key is to talk to the prosecutor beforehand. They will almost always plea it down.

This was in Maryland. It seemed you went right to the courtroom and talked to a judge along with 40 other people. There was no prosecutor present as far as I could tell.

I've fought them in Connecticut later and there you only meet with a prosecutor and they warn you all over the place that if you don't take the deal and try to go to court the judge can significantly increase the fine :-(

This presentation was not to a court; see slide 51 for the resolution: his attorney bargained it down to a zero-points violation before trial.

I'm sure it was valuable lesson for you that law is not concerned with the truth as much as it is with order.