The cliche BS is that "they had to offer lesser charges to get something that would make it through court." But I have seen many examples in local cases that seem laughably easy to bring to convictions.
As always my full disclosure: I do not believe in the jury system, the system of "justice", the DOJ or the FBI.
“I do not believe in the jury system, the system of ‘justice’, the DOJ or the FBI.”
My experience as a jurist and, once, as a defendent in a civil case is that the jury system is an important barrier to overreach by law enforcement and prosecutors.