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With Trump the statute of limitations had run out on a possible misdemeanor charge. Ours is what is now known as a "two-tiered" justice system.Likely because Bowman admitted to his guilt and didn't try to contest the charges. As a prime example, if Trump had been willing to turn over all his documents to NARA, there would have been no charges (just like Pence). If he had been willing to turn his documents over to the DoJ, before they felt they needed to get a search warrant, again, I doubt there would have been charges. Even after the search warrant and the DoJ indicted Trump, I'm sure he could have settled for lesser charges if he'd admitted guilt and turned over the remainder of documents that he had (if he had any left to turn over).
It tends to be how our justice system works; if you are willing to admit the fault, you get a lesser charge and lesser sentence. If you don't, the prosecutor tends to charge you with the most serious charges possible and push for the maximum sentence if convicted.
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