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I see this from a different point of view.
First, I suspect your demeanor upon being contacted by the officer was not all sweetness and light as you portray. Instead, you decided to exercise your First and Fourth Amendment rights to mock the officer, play dumb, delay him in the performance of his duties and drag your encounter with him out for as long as possible, just to be an annoyance.
By prolonging your contact with him in such a manner, you created a window of time that allowed him to see many more violations he might otherwise have missed had this been a shorter encounter. Having now observed these violations, he cited you for them appropriately.
No doubt you think the officer threw the book at you. I would suggest to the contrary – that the officer gave you a break, in spite of you having failed the attitude test.
Normally, breaking traction is cited at CVC23109(c), a misdemeanor. Instead, the officer cited you for the lesser charge of CVC 22350, unsafe speed. His point (most likely) will be that, considering the traffic on, and the surface and width of the highway, your speed caused you to loose traction and endangered the safety of persons or property, making it unsafe.
In short, you got the poor man’s exhibition of speed, without being charged with exhibition of speed. He gave you a break. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.