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I'd argue that any gap is coercive, just as I'd object to giving criminals even one minute of additional prison time for being critical of the President.

Someone who forces the state to prove its case is merely exercising their legal right to do so. Giving them a harsher sentence for this is effectively punishing them for exercising their legal rights. You can word this as rewarding people who don't force the state to prove its case i.e. people who don't exercise that particular legal right, but it's the same thing.