Sorry, I slept all of 30 minutes last night due to pain issues and then fell asleep VERY quickly after court - and then I was kept quite busy by my SO after that.
Long story short - I got hit hard in court, no jail time, no RKBA issues on my record, but serious fines, community service and what amounts to an official bribe - a mandatory "donation" to the city of Aurora.
The judge was black. The prosecutor was black. On seeing the prosecutor (first case of the day), the judge literally leaned over the bench, put his hand out, grinned at the prosecutor, and said, AND I QUOTE: "what's up, homie?"
The prosecutor told me and my lawyer, in so many words, "Here's the deal we're offering. You can take that, or you can plead guilty, or we can go to a full trial - but that jury will be six black men that would love to see your white ass in jail."
When I protested (no law had been broken, I was ALLEGED to have broken the law, etc.) the prosecutor grinned real big and told me it didn't matter - three police officers would be more than happy to tell the judge and jury that I was a liar.
The deal was a POS (guilty plea to disturbing the peace, 30 hours of community service, $500 fine, $100 "donation" to the city), but better than jail time. My lawyer told me, TAKE IT. So... I did. I'm done with court, but damn. I've lost faith in the system... and what I did, it was carrying a knife in a shitty town in Colorado. Not against state law, not against local law, but the police wanted to nail at least one of us for something, ANYTHING, because one of the people I was with was open carrying and the cops there hate it.