Unless somebody can show that there is more to this than meets the eye, there probably isn’t. There are more than a few cases out there of people being punished by the judicial system well out of proportion of their accused crime.
He hasn’t even had a chance to plea his case and he’s received far more punishment than all but the most serious offenders.
Could be. As is often the case, there is much we will never know about the details and motivations of those in the legal system.
It’s a safe bet that someone deliberately decided to destroy this person’s life. This isn’t just a bureaucracy run amok, IMO.