Not sure but it seems to me that all of you posting about the cost of this or that speed are missing the point of his tale. It is not clear what the court did with the speeding charge as we are told only that adjudication was withheld. This can happen with a no contest or a guilty plea but while IANAL I don't think with an innocent finding.
Rather he was hit with a 300 dollar charge for involving the courts rather than just paying. It is a strange thing here that if you want to fight a ticket in court you have to pay a court costs for the system's time I guess, unless you are found innocent which almost never happens.
When I moved here in 2010 we attended a welcome to the villages orientation at which the local judge spoke briefly. He said, in a display of great judicial impartiality, "Don't contest a ticket because I am never going to believe you over a cop" and we would then be paying both the fine and court costs.
As the OP said the ticket alone was going to cost just over 400, it obviously was for speeding in a school zone, not being 3 MPH over 35 and would have included points. Instead he spent just under 400, costs plus attorney, and maybe no points. A win for him.
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