City lawyers say they have irrefutable evidence that a politically connected Manhattan judge trying to dodge a traffic ticket — and suing the city over it — is, in fact, guilty of the violation.

“This case can be resolved by viewing 17 seconds of video image,” Law Department attorney Sharon Stiefel boasts in court papers.

Supreme Court Judge Geoffrey Wright, brother of Assemblyman Keith Wright, sued over the $115 ticket in July after a red-light “gotcha” cam caught him in a bus lane on First Avenue.

The 65-year-old Harlem resident tried to prove his innocence by submitting photos to illustrate his claim that he was allowed to be in the bus lane as he approached East 23rd Street because he made a right-hand turn at the corner.

But Stiefel says a video camera puts the lie to that tale, catching the judge driving his mom’s Mazda right past 23rd Street, while still in the bus lane — blowing past the turn that might have made his case.

The Department of Transportation footage shows Wright moving back out of the bus lane only after crossing the intersection, north of 23rd.

The photographs the judge took at the scene after he was ticketed focus on the area just south of the intersection.

Wright’s “argument fails because the photographs he took and submitted . . . are not photographs of the section of the roadway where his vehicle was photographed by DOT,” Stiefel argues.

“Although a photograph usually speaks a thousand words, that saying is only true when everyone is looking at the same photograph,” she quips in the filing.

Stiefel also schools the judge on the law — saying there’s no statute to support his demand for an investigation into the traffic court that denied his appeal.

The Albany School of Law grad “cites no relevant statute authorizing such relief or case law in support of [his] request,” Stiefel writes.

Wright’s lawyer, Roger Wareham, said he had reviewed the city’s argument. “We’ll resolve it in court,” he said.

The suit was delayed on Tuesday when the judge appointed to the case, Peter Moulton, recused himself.

Because Wright filed the complaint in the court system where he has worked since the 1990s, it will likely be difficult for him to find an impartial colleague to preside over his case.

His father, Bruce “Turn ’Em Loose” Wright, was a criminal-court judge notorious for lenient sentences.

Mayor de Blasio has asked the state Legislature to approve the installation of more of the controversial traffic cameras under a pilot program started by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.



Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya