[hinckley buzzard]

I suspect the county prosecutor did not want to defend against charges of violating the protestors' civil rights in federal court.

[topher]

The Thomas More Society had also won a judgement that each of the ND88 be tried separately.

That would have made this a very expensive case of this county in Indiana...

Considering Indiana passed legislation to defund Planned Parenthood (recently), it is a somewhat conservative state...

[Palladin]

More likely the prosecutor is running for some public office.