[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

There is _no_ need for you, or your friend, to create a complex defense. These cases are decided by justices--local "judges."

The justice will ask you how you plead, you say "not guilty." The justice will then ask the officer for his report and he will say, "A white Porsche passed us at an accident scene, and 15 minutes later we found the car at a restaurant and ticketed it." (Or something to that effect.) If the justice is a jerk and a friend of the cop's, he'll declare you guilty and no amount of arguing on your part will change that. Don't even bother.

If the justice is any good, and many of them have no more regard for cops than most of us do, he'll ask the cop how he could possibly know it was the same Porsche. Got his license number? Even though the car zipped right past and has an eight-digit plate number??? And you may just get off.

Either way, there's no need for you to defend yourself, and becoming argumentative can only hurt.