Been there, done that.....that's what the court is for...I've NEVER entered a guilty plea to anything and I certainly wouldn't have in that case. I have had the same accusation and the court heard my testimony and that of the officer, neither of us lied, and the judge tossed it and reminded the officer to be more observant as to the reality of the situation...
Luckily, the cop was in such a ticket-production mode that he forgot to reset his machine. He was an Oregon trooper, and only writing tickets to Washingtonians. So, he wrote my truck a ticket with my license plate number, but attributed it to the driver of the last truck he pulled over from Washington.
So, I didn’t have a ticket. In my name, anyhow. I just sat on it, never paid, and I’m sure they washed it away as lost revenue. Because that’s all it was to them, revenue from out-of-staters. Meaningful law enforcement be damned. Revenue for the welfare state is all that guy was about that day.