Do a search on Trial by affidavit or Trial by declaration (TBD)
Depending on the state your in this will give you the opprotunity to write in your defence as well as the LEO that wrote the ticket will have the opportunity do the same.
99.9% of the time the LEO will not write in as they do not get paid extra to do so whereas they do get paid extra to go to court.
The trick is to wait til the very last minute to file the TBD and request for documents from the court for the TBD. This will increase the time which helps. You will be given more time then to fill out and file the TBD documents. By the time the TBD due date arrives it may be over 6 months or more. You file the document and pay the fine.
The LEO that wrote the ticket will then be requested to file his version.
By that time he has written thousands of tickets and has to try and remember the violation. Hence it is easier for him to place priority on a case that is going to court then to "write in" a incident he can not remember.
There is a good chance he will let it go and the case is dismissed and you get your fine back.
I have beaten 3 out of 3 tickets with this approach.
never went to court never left the house all ddone through the mail and the LA court internet site.
if in the event the LEO does file you will then have the opportunity to take it to court. By this time it will be well over 1 year and the LEO will not remember the incident. You simply ask if he remembers the incident and chances are he does not have his notes on this traffic stop.
You can also ask for traffic school at this time.
here is a link to a random
TBD site
There are much more info on the web.
Good luck hope this info works for the area you are in
JC