[higherpurpose]

Yet people here keep defending these ridiculous charges because they "don't matter", and "aren't real anyway". Yeah, tell that to the person that had to hear that charge and then got scared shitless into accepting "only 2 years" of prison time.

[spacemanmatt]

I haven't seen that. Prosecutorial abuse is better understood around HN than most of society, that I've seen. YMMV.