I may be wrong, but a prosecuting attorney is damned if he doesn’t let the case go to trial. Denying a woman her day in court when the charge is rape, is not a winning proposition.
With what you have brought up though, I can’t fathom how a defending attorney could urge a plea deal that would screw this guy over like this.
There seems to have been plenty of information available to have the jury outright laughing at the prosecutors and the supposed victim once they’d heard the facts.
It sounds as though the attorney and the prosecutors had convinced the kid that he had done something wrong by having sex with the girl at some other time and that it didn’t matter whether he had sex with her on that particular day or not.
The two were in summer school together. The girl claimed that he grabbed her outside the door to the ladies room and dragged her past several classrooms where classes were in session and would have heard any commotion or screaming, up an elevator, down two flights of stairs to some secluded alcove. Then had sex with her and ejaculated inside her. I mean she made up all kinds of details that she thought would support her case, but there was no semen in the rape kit.
The Founders didn't provide prostituting attorneys unlimited buckets of taxpayer money to party down with, nor did they provide great pay, benefits & retirement as an incentive to "party to win" with taxpayer money.
The system is out of control.
All you need to do is look at where Bill Clinton and Jon Corzine are at today.