After watching the Justice Kavanaugh hearings, the Trump impeachment hearings, the Mueller investigation, etc., IMHO St. Louis Prosecutor Kimberly Gardner and the leftist socialists will let nothing stand in their way to conduct yet another kangaroo court to promote/advance their agendas.
Exactly. If anything they will proceed just to get the optics and sound bites, pardon or no pardon. The conviction is not the goal, it's the message. Squaring off against a Republican Governor, who also happens to be a retired LEO, is just icing on the cake for them.