My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: California.
Yesterday 1/8/2013 a CHP was slowing down in the 2 of 4 lanes on I15 SB. I had never seen this before so I slowed with him until he stopped and I stopped as well as ALL traffic for him to remove an unsafe piece of metal from the highway. Upon completion of the removal he signaled for lanes 1 and 4 to proceed and then entered his vehicle. He then began to move and turned OFF his lights. To me it indicated that travel could commence. As I commenced my travel my tires squealed. Now I'm 61 years old and not in the habit of ruining tires. In fact I have NEVER had a ticket in my life. I must include this; my vehicle is a Chrysler 300 SRT8 with 455 HP. The car has a little quirk which is evident each time it idles for a period of time after driving for a period of time and then stopping. Ie, red light or traffic stoppage as in this case. The quirk is this; as you press the gas pedal it does nothing and then "Jackrabbits" forward. However, where I live in Utah app. 5000 ft elevation, the wheels have NEVER squealed when it does this, but it DID do it here at app. 300 ft elevation. I AM aware that it does this and adjust accordingly once it has begun to move forward. When he pulled me over I had no idea why until he told me of the "Jackrabbit" squealing tires in addition to cars having to be at least 300 feet from his vehicle when stopped etc. When he said something to the effect that he "thought" I was trying to do it I said "I don't care what you think. I was NOT trying to do so." Anyway he took forever to get back to me with the ticket and gave me one for "Exhibition of Speed" with the (M) or misdemeanor circled.
My thoughts and or questions are these. Why in the world would he first of all mark it as a Misdemeanor and second why when there is NO INTENT or nothing to gain or any LOGIC to the citation, since I was literally right next to him, would he do such a thing and what is my best course of action to fight this. I cannot do ANYTHING it seems until MARCH 6, 2013 as that is the date noted on the citation. I am aware of the actions available as written on the back of the citation.

