The presence of a quota system that requires that the government bring a certain number of cases and provides bonuses and rewards connected to "bringing more cases" means that honorable and honest prosecutors fall behind and cannot compete and dirty and heartless prosecutors are able to meet their goals and get ahead. It is not possible to fight the federal government, only a man of enormous strength and enormous balls can successfully do this. Most capitulate, the others lose because the government burden of proof is a joke.