Depends on the ticket. If your ticket is "correctable" (a fix it ticket) and its already been fixed and signed off @ CHP (they wont charge you to sign it off as fixed) then no you dont have to see a judge (they are actually lawyers that are paid as "commissioners of fines") and you can just pay the fee associated with the correctable infraction.
No unless you want to fight it
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