Bottom line is they thought he’d cave and plead out. This is done all the time. Ronnie Earl from Austin got Kay Baily Hutchison indicted and dropped charges about an hour before the trial was to start.
Zimmerman refused to cave. Paula Deen caved immediately.
Actually they got the word that folks from across the state of WV were going to converge on their little community on Friday to support that young man. Me thinks they got a wee bit scared. W.Virginians are not nice when they get riled up, and they were plenty riled by this offense against common sense.