A "speedy trial" needs to NOW be "no more than a six-month wait"

Dear Patch Reader

In order to reduce the number of near-future crimes committed by people too dangerous to be set free on $100 or so bond ... I have written this letter to Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. The United States needs a method to keep those charged with serious crimes, from being out on the streets and committing additional and even more awful crimes.

Here is my suggested method ... a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution. -Sid:

From: Sid Colton <s220sid2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 2:13 PM
Subject: I propose a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution
To: Senator Richard J. Durbin <correspondence_reply@durbin.senate.gov>
Cc: JB Pritzker <GovernorsOffice@illinois.gov>, Lori Lightfoot <lori.lightfoot@cityofchicago.org>, President Paul Alivisatos <President@uchicago.edu>, Prof Geoffrey R. Stone <g-stone@uchicago.edu>

Monday November 22, 2021

Dear Senator Durbin,

The horrific events in Waukesha yesterday reveal a clear and present danger to all Americans:
Because of the Sixth Amendment, in combination with Covid's preventing hundreds of courts in the United States from being able to provide the required-by-the-6th-Amendment's "speedy trial": people charged with serious crimes, have been forced to be let free, since there was no wherewithal in the courts to provide everyone a speedy trial.

This has created an Emergency and danger of death to the 99+ % of law-abiding US citizens and visitors, whenever a person charged with a serious crime, is let free on $100 or minimal or even zero bond.

You need to sponsor, today, a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

I have drafted The Initial Draft ... myself, just now:

28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

Upon Congress and the President declaring that courts in the United States have insufficient personnel or wherewithal to provide speedy trials, Congress together with the President may declare that a trial can begin up to six months after a person is charged with a crime. The President and the Governors may thereupon call up the National Guard to provide staffing for the nation's courts to keep the time awaiting trial within this six-month limit. No atypically low bond shall be granted by any court in the United States during this or any other circumstance.

-- authored by Sid Colton, Monday November 22, 2021

Senator Durbin: For the good of America, you need to introduce this 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution .... today. We depend on your leadership in these times of extraordinary emergency.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Sid Colton, 70
The University of Chicago A.B. 1973