Set a trial date. You can try first attendance with a prosecutor to see if he'll wipe it clean (I've seen it happen) but if he doesn't then ask for a trial. TD won't see this ticket until a convinction is entered into the system and it lands on your abstract. Unfortunatey, since you got your other two tickets less than 3 years ago, come renewal time you will have 3 on your record IF you don't get this rolling stop charge thrown out. Set a trial date, apply for disclosure and gather as much evidence as you can to cast the officer's evidence into doubt. Unless he had a camera on you he has only his word and notes to back him up so it's not like getting caught speeding by radar.
I got a ticket for the same thing a few years ago. I recorded the exact date/time that it occurred, took notes on weather conditions, visibility, position of police cruiser relative to my own and any obstacles between us. I even hopped on Goggle streetview to get some pictures of the intersection where it happened. Turned out the cop car was hiding in that same spot on google maps lol. it showed that he was hiding behind a large building sign that, IMO, obstructed his line of sight to my vehicle. Take actual POV photos if you can. There's more to my case than this but at the end of the day I got lucky and the officer disappeared when it was my turn to approach the bench. They paged him 3 times but he was nowhere to be found. My guess is he had to go to the can lol. I was actually kind of looking forward to trying my case but I can't complain about the outcome.
[EDIT] Btw, not saying that any of this stuff I tried to do would've got me off the hook. I simply had no choice but to fight it in court so I did my best to build a case.[/EDIT]
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