[general_re]

No flames, from me - seriously. There's been too much of that already. But I must confess that I find this...

But right now the burden of proof is on the police and prosecuting attorneys. Bad idea.

...to be quite shocking. Where would you have the burden of proof be in criminal cases? Should we simply assume that people are guilty unless they can prove their innocence? You are aware, I hope, that by doing so, you will have destroyed several hundred years worth of legal tradition, and created a state with powers that can only described as truly frightening....

[UnsinkableMollyBrown]

You're forgetting that even if the police recover piles and piles of child porn, the defendent can claim that he created it all via computer. Then the police would have to prove he didn't - which is vitually impossible according to computer forensic standards.