Company Called DOT on Me- If I pay citation am I admitting guilt?

I accidentally logged 10 Hours and 3 Min during my sleeper berth/off duty time as on duty. I then began driving, this was the last day of a 1600 Mile load and only had to drive 88 miles.
A NEW dispatcher at my company freaked out and saw that I was "in violation". He texted and called me several times and told me to stop driving. I didn't because I only had to drive 88 Miles to finish delivering the load and if you don't deliver the load the company does not pay you for the miles you drove (the previous 1522 miles), because yeah the company is a douche. If it wasn't for that I would have just stopped driving or turned around and brought their truck back to their DC because I was about to quit anyway and this was my last load.

Well my company called highway patrol on me. Got pulled over 10 miles away from the destination and was issued a citation for being in excess of 14 hours.
I told them that my ELD was erroneous and I was driving under 150 miles so didn't need a log anyway but he did not allow me to edit my log.
As of today I was now able to edit the log and change that 10 hrs 3 min of on duty time to off duty to accurately reflect it. Can I just show the court the printout of my edited log and say "look theres no violation"? Case dismissed. My ELD also wasn't properly syncronized with the truck so maybe that helps me. So I could argue there's an ELD error.

Literally could've just done the load at night when the dispatchers and office people are at home and none of this would've happened. It was literally my last day anyway. Just wanted to deliver the load to get paid for the previous 2.5/3 days driving. Now I get $0 anyway plus a citation. #### trucking.

 

I don't mind paying it. I just don't want it on my record.

 

Nope it's not 1099 it's w2. Never heard of a company calling DOT on their own driver you mean?