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As I'm not a big donor and don't have a big PR budget, my only remaining option is to indulge in a bit of religious demagogery of my own. So, to every legislator who reads this, I say: If you willingly allow any law reversing the onus of proof in drug-possession cases to remain on the books, may it please God that you are falsely convicted under that law! For it is written: "Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him."
In the USA, such laws are clearly unconstitutional because (i) they foreseeably lead to convictions of innocent people, and (ii) any judicial punishment inflicted on an innocent person is cruel and unusual. To any Supreme Court Justices who allow this abomination to continue, I say: May it please God that you become a victim of the law as interpreted by you; "for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
Meanwhile, if you're on a jury, and if the judge tells you that the law requires the defendant to prove or adduce evidence that he/she didn't know the drugs were there, it is your civic duty to ignore the law, put the onus of proof back where it belongs, raise it to the proper standard (beyond reasonable doubt), and hand down a verdict on that basis. To anyone who disagrees I say: May it please God that drugs are found among your belongings, and that you are tried by jurors who think as you do.
"For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Amen.
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