Obviously members of law enforcement, the DAs office and the judiciary are involved in human trafficking.
The victim had been prostituted out, and the guy she stabbed had been a John of hers several times.
The reason the court threw the book at *her* is that she stabbed him to death in his sleep: the court said he was not an active threat, or words to that effect.
There’s a reason people don’t like lawyers. But sometimes cases involve no good answer.