I'm not a lawyer but I am a US citizen. To me, the police, prosecutors, and judges in the OP are, really, just out to attack the poor people, just attack them

I'm not a lawyer but I am a US citizen. To me, the police, prosecutors, and judges in the OP are, really, just out to attack the poor people, just attack them like wild, mad, rabid dogs, attack them for no good reason, just declare war on them, out of hate, arrogance, self-exalted ego, like thugs that just like to beat up on people. Let's see: "Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense. Amendment VII In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." So, the OP violated: "Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, ..." The trials are not "speedy". Any judge who has any respect for the Constitution and is not out just to act like a wild, mad, rabid dog out to declare war on the poor people should immediately dismiss any case without a "speedy trial". So, the OP violated: "Amendment VII In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, ..." The "right of trial by jury" was not "preserved". Instead, the delays in the system and the excessive bail canceled that right. So, the OP violated: "Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." The bail was deliberately excessive and the jail situation "inflicted" "cruel and unusual punishments" as a means to coerce a guilty plea without a trial. In addition, from "The rest of the file contained Tomlin’s criminal history, which included 41 convictions, ..." the system clearly convicts and punishes the defendants based not on the crime they are accused of but often just on the record of crimes of the past, crimes for which they have "paid their debt to society", that is, multiple jeopardy. In addition, it is now essentially illegal to carry more than, say, a few hundred dollars in cash. Seeing such cash, it is common for the police just to confiscate it, in wild violation of "Amendment V ... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." So, from the OP: "The documentation submitted by the arresting officer explained that his training and experience told him that plastic straws are 'a commonly used method of packaging heroin residue.'" That's essentially the same as saying that "his training and experience told him that" commonly criminals breathe and that he observed the defendant breathing so arrested him. The judge should have laughed the police officer out of the court room and asked the public defender to file charges of false arrest against the officer and bringing a nonsense legal case against the prosecutor. Instead, the judge just went along with wild, mad, rabid dog attack on the citizen. No, clearly, actually his training and experience told him that the defendant was poor so should be viciously attacked with the intention of ruining his life -- the excuse was that he had in one hand a bottle of soft drink and in the other hand a soda straw. Here the police, prosecutors, and judges are just declaring war on a large fraction of US citizens -- just war, no cause, no reason, wildly illegal and unconstitutional, very dirty business. The whole system is wildly in conflict with the Constitution. If the US legal system had any honest functionality at all, then any lawyer should be able to make a motion that would shut down the whole situation coast to coast in an hour.