You seem to want to blame me for my opinion. Why? I really have no influence on this one way or another and I would guess neither do the rest of us. And as for the DA, most DAs would do the same thing under the circumstances.
You're saying most DA's would take over an investigation from the police, hold some 70 public interviews on the case, and fix the ID process so that only a lax player would be picked? It's apparent that you haven't done your homework.
Absolutely not.
No, they don't. I worked for a large DA's office in CA for many years, and I never saw the likes of this in the jurisdiction in which I worked nor did I hear of or notice any in the other fifty-seven jurisdictions in the state. This case would be blown out at the prelim. The charges would not be sustained, and no DA in his right mind would have brought them in this situation. The photo arrays, the DNA dragnet, the prejudicial statements made by the DA, the identification - all would have been laughed out of court.