Then it's a good thing the accused wasn't at the mercy of an overworked public defender lacking the same resources as the DA's office and who wouldn't have bothered to do the exculpatory investigating, either. In that case, there would have been a trial date set, a plea bargain proffered and a criminal record established for Mr. Bryson to carry with him for the rest of his life, as if the damage done for being branded a racist weren't already burden enough.
It's funny that you think the DA -- an elected official, you know -- doesn't recognize a hot-button political issue in this town when it lands in her lap. Perhaps it seemed like too tasty of a quick conviction for her to care about the truth until it walked through her office door.