> We have a very high bar for guilt in criminal trials.

If we do, then my suggestion should be easy to implement and will only impact a tiny minority of cases.

Of course, in this case it's pretty clear that the prosecution made up a bunch of charges that they knew they'd lose on to try to drain the resources of the people they were charging, as well as punish them pre-emptively. The prosecution also clearly broke the rules in other ways, eg by getting a mistrial when they kept on bringing up sex trafficking, a crime the Backpage founders simply weren't charged with.

There are plenty of actual criminals in the world that need to be prosecuted. This case is clearly a politically motivated exception.