Wrong Info on Ticket

[tulipnaturale]

My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Georgia

I approached a four-way intersection with a traffic light - the light has a left arrow for the left lane and a right arrow for the right lane. The street is two-way ahead, but there's one of those curved barriers with small poles to prevent you from going straight (when you come from the other direction, you can only turn right or left). There are no signs posted. I was in the right lane and I made a partial right turn, then jogged around the barrier to go straight.

I got pulled over and cited with Georgia 40-6-20. He wrote "Failure to obey traffic control device 'No Left Turn' posted."

There are no signs posted "No Left Turn" anywhere, plus I didn't even make a left turn. I made a right and made sort of a small u-turn. Also, does this barrier count as a traffic control device?

Do I stand a decent chance of fighting this successfully in court? It doesn't seem to me that the citation was made properly, but then I'm not a lawyer and have never received a citation before, so I don't really know.

[Mr. Knowitall]

Basically, you're stating that you deliberately ignored the road signs and barrier to proceed forward when only left and right turns were allowed, but for some reason the officer has marked the ticket that you ignored a "no left turn" sign?

Odds are, in court, the officer won't have any recollection of the incident other than what's on his ticket, so if you were go to to court with photographs proving that left turns were explicitly allowed at the intersection he may not even be able to recall or explain why he issued the ticket. Even if he has a really good memory, the court may find cause to question his recollection on the basis that it appears inconsistent with his note. So it sounds like you're in a pretty good position to try to challenge the ticket or see if the prosecutor will cut you a deal.