You said:
"The district attorney in my county has recently set up a pre-indictment docket for cases to reviewed with the defendant and their attorneys and I have had several cases dismissed, for various reasons, during this process that would have probably been indicted and the expenditure of unnecessary resources would have occurred by both the defendant and the state."
He sounds like one of the good guys--but I certainly hope that his purpose is more than the utilitarian goal of cutting expenditure of resources. I hope that he is also attempting to serve justice.
The focus on resources by prosecutors and other lawyers (and courts) demonstrates the influence of Benthamite-utilitarian ethics on the law. I'm afraid that we lawyers are becoming mere technicians rather than servants of justice.