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"How do we stop criminals??" Become hard on crime again. Not checkpoints. The next person caught with drugs, send them to prison for life. Next one caught murdering someone? Administer the death penalty within 30 days. Tell the ACLU to go piss up a rope.

How would you react if the state had tried, convicted, and given you the maximum sentence within 30 days of your own arrest? If your family or your attorney had any problem with that, would you tell them to go piss up a rope?

Your assertion that rushed trials followed by automatic, draconian sentencing somehow reduces crime is simply not born out by the empirical evidence. A system like that may make the public feel warm and fuzzy, but it is not a just, effective criminal justice system.

I sincerely wish you good luck with your case. I hope that the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury do not treat you in the manner that you would have them treat other accused criminals.

How would you react if the state had tried, convicted, and given you the maximum sentence within 30 days of your own arrest? If your family or your attorney had any problem with that, would you tell them to go piss up a rope?

If malfeasant government agents were punished for their crimes, one would probably be safer under such a system than under today's system where government agents can ignore laws with impunity, despite all the "protections" we have today.

Let's keep things in perspective. I did not murder someone. I did not have drugs. I was driving my wife's car, and in that car she carried the same 105grm container of mace she has carried since her father gave it to her over twenty years ago. Legal limit to have on you in Michigan and New York is up to 35grms.

This does not make me a criminal. This makes me a victim of circumstance.

Now, if I went out last week and bought it, knowing it was illegal, I attempted to use it in a uncivilized way, then yes...throw the book at me.

There is a HUGE difference and it surprises me you can't grasp that difference...