I think the District Attorney’s plan was to offer them deals and get them to turn on each other. When that didn’t work, he started trying to get them to plead to something small. I believe he thought a bunch of convictions, even if they were little more than parking tickets, would be his springboard to higher office. Obviously none of it worked. He apparently didn’t realize that those guys are very much ‘code’ driven.
Hard to turn on someone you may not have ever met and you just arrived when the shooting started.
1. Create shootout at the TP corral
2. Arrest 177 survivors
3. ......
4. Profit !!!!
If there is one trait universal to nearly every biker I’ve met, it is Resolve.