[masraum]

"No contest" doesn't really benefit you at all. At least, that didn't work for me when I was young. IME, you still have to pay the full fine amount and you still get all of the points. I would NEVER use that option. If you were going to do that, you'd be far better off just taking defensive driving. Here, if you take defensive driving, your record still shows the ticket, but it shows "0" points.

It sounds to me like you need to talk to a different lawyer. Around here there are usually several lawyers that specialize in tickets and will usually work whatever magic to make the ticket go away.

Another option here is to ask for "deferred adjudication" or "deferred disposition." The way that works, they usually make you pay a sum similar to the ticket. Then they say "if you don't have any other tickets during then this ticket goes away like it never happened." When I was younger I used that option. The time was usually 60 or 90 days. And once you're done, it's not even possible to see that you had a ticket.