Police and prosecutors use laws to "pile on" whenever they arrest or charge somebody. I've heard of cases where they got a beer-drinking college student who was taking a leak outdoors and charged him as a "sex offender". The priority seems to be to create as many "felons" as possible so as to be able to deny those persons constitutional rights for the rest of their lives. Often it seems they'll charge some kind of felony which any paid lawyer can have dismissed, usually in exchange for the defendant pleading out to lesser misdemeanors. The laws are abused as "bargaining chips" and, since the state has unlimited resources to prosecute and the individual usually has limited funds to defend himself, they get away with it. I'd like to see cops and prosecutors held personally liable for expenses and damages resulting from their intentional "over-charging".
I have a good friend who is a RSO because he got busted for pissing on a dumpster.