Convicted drug kingpin Khaophone Sychantha was 100% certain he didn’t need a lawyer.

Hell, he didn’t even need a defence.

The way the 43-year-old Laotian-Canadian man sees it: He will be exonerated by appellate courts in Michigan. He argues he never should have been extradited to the U.S. in the first place.

Sychantha wants the courts to kick his sentence to the curb. In a motion filed in April, the Windsor-area drug trafficker claimed he was … kidnapped from Canada and brought to the U.S. without an extradition hearing.

The alumna of Homeland Security’s 10 Most Wanted list appears geographically illiterate. His trial was held in Detroit. Not Vancouver. Not Toronto. Not Brampton.

In those places, too many judges would have been ready, willing and able to swallow hook, line and sinker

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