Appreciate the info. Thanks.

Do you recall what the total cost was after fees? I'm just bracing for impact.

Yep, they were performing a traffic stop on the shoulder with the lights on.

Yeah, I'm not going to try to get out of it. I'm just hoping for some amount of leniency, especially since I have to appear before a judge anyway as part of it.

Yeah, I get the idea behind it and understand. I'm not trying to get out of it, but my hope is that the judge has some discretion to reduce the impact somewhat. Completely legally irrelevant but adding to my frustration is that this clearly wasn't a crash scene or emergency of any kind, but because the officer was giving someone else a ticket.