Littlefinger and Fatlock aren't making the decisions themselves. There's an army of lawyers calling the shots and these two are just the bagmen. The dem suits are daring the judge to do something, to the point of admitting they're withholding exculpatory materials, which I think is like Brady violations in the FISA cases. Feds said, fuck you, do something about it, then and they're doing it now, because no one has stopped them. It works.
Thus is the reality of the justice system in the US.
In all honesty, what would be bad about a mistrial, a change of venue and sequestering the jury from day 1, considering the number of normies who have gotten the true picture of events once this trial started. It would only increase the publicity and interest.
Judge needs to close the book on this clusterfuck with prejudice, or, at the very least, get the kid out on bail, in a safe location, and wait for someone to buy him the best criminal lawyer in the country. Then do a retrial in a rural district.in the heart of a Wisconsin winter. Let the protestors freeze their ass off, and try to burn businesses in the middle of hunting country. They don't carry AR-15s.