The prosecutors pile on the charges to frighten defendants with the prospect of long prison terms so they plead out.
The state also hopes to throw enough charges against the wall to see what sticks.
- But the danger of overreach is that a judge may want to smack a prosecutor down for bringing unnecessary charges.
Such is the case in the January 6 prosecutions.
One of the rioters, Edward Lang, is facing 11 charges and pleaded not guilty to all of them.
But a district court judge threw out the charges relating to “obstruction of an official proceeding” concerning Lang...
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