Your thinking would involve a jay walker a walk down the hall to the little room with no exit.(1). Campaign finance violations are ALWAYS a "Summary" offense, punishable by a FINE. Period.
(2). The corrupt prosecutor in NYC has fashioned this case - unlike any other case in the history of jurisprudence - to be a FELONY.
(3). Given the venue, if the case reaches the point of a verdict, the verdict will be guilty, without question.
(4). The guilty verdict will be appealed and overturned, without question.
(5). The purpose of the trial is to BE ABLE TO CALL TRUMP A CONVICTED FELON before November. That's it. Everybody knows that Trump will never be incarcerated for this non-crime.
(6). Proving again that the Left is evil and the enemy of democracy.
As I have stated previously, the grotesque manipulation of the "justice" system is not the worst aspect of this series of show-trials. The worst aspect of it is that even though everyone knows it is a grotesque manipulation of the justice system, half of the voting public are fine with it.
As is demonstrated a hundred times a day on this very forum.