Gary Crum, you have no idea.  In the present case, the DA levied 10 felonies and more misdemeanors.  This is precisely and solely to force a plea bargain where the newspaper reports guilty without a day in court while the "perp" actually chose between essentially life in prison (given full knowledge that people like those that post here would find him guilty regardless of evidence and given the plethora of criminal counts)  and a much reduced set of charges obtained via the "bargain."  Guilty no longer means guilty, it means the ADA had the power to extort whatever he/she wanted.