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You are certainly within your rights to fight this yourself.
But I certainly don't suggest it. If you add up all the time you'll have to spend to do so, you'll be close to the cost of the traffic lawyer. And you will still have a fairly high chance of failing, thus paying the ticket, taking the point(s), and wasted all that time.
With a traffic lawyer, unless you were doing something atrocious, they will always get you off your first ticket. Either through a deferral, outright dismissal, or reduction to a non-point offense and a minor fine. As hard as it is to swallow, this is going to be the cheapest path overall.
You aren't going in front of Judge Judy, this will be somebody that has a huge amount of people to process through every day, and they all have excuses, most of them the weakest excuses ever. Traffic lawyers already know the judge, know the procedures, and know all the loopholes. And the Judges know that as well, so instead of wasting time on fighting, they'll just defer or go for the minor non-point fine.
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