39, the meter maids mostly wrote the tickets out w/the wrong plate # in the first place – and he could just throw it out.
1st of all, tickets now are not done by hand, they are done with a barcode reader and the registration.
2nd of all, I remember a gridlock sam article where someone asked why 1 ticket was written with a 0, and another was written with an o. He asked if he had grounds for dismissal (with at least 1 ticket). The reply was that a o or 0 reversal would not be judged as “incompetence” by any traffic court judge