Could be a leverage thing, prosecutors do that a lot, they hold up a really high but impossible to prove charge to try and get you to plead guilty to a lower an

Could be a leverage thing, prosecutors do that a lot, they hold up a really high but impossible to prove charge to try and get you to plead guilty to a lower and difficult to prove charge. The DUI charge might have just been a strategic play to get him to plead to careless driving. Not happy to see people's lives used as strategic plays like this, but unfortunately the egos of lawyers can play a huge role in the court system.