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Question

How to plead not guilty in a traffic violation

Aug 25, 2015 7:30PM PDT

I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I made a left turn onto the road and at the same time, a few pedestrians entered the roadway on the other lane about 100 feet away from the crosswalk and my car. They were far from my car so I drove forward and passed them since they had just entered the roadway. My surprise, a cop who was standing across the light came and gave me a ticket for not yielding to pedestrians in a crosswalk. A bigger catch, the pedestrians did not cross the road and just walked on the road rather than the sidewalk.

Brown is sidewalk
red is crosswalk
Silver arrow is my car turning
Blue is pedestrians crossing the road
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z14/nmascarenhas/other_zpsgqonstql.png

This happened on my campus so I spoke with my campus police department the next day and they told me to plead not guilty at court and the cop that gave me the ticket is a (and I quote) "Tryhard". What do I say at court? I do not believe I was at the wrong here.

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