What if Vincent Bugliosi wasn't the DA in the Manson case?

Pretty much every person knows who Charles Manson is and what he is about. At least they know the version that the prosecutor in the case, DA Vincent Bugliosi, has force fed down the American Public's throat. He concocted the Helter Skelter garbage because he really didn't have a case against Manson. The girls and Tex Watson, yes, but not Manson. So, he fabricated evidence and got witnesses to play along with his story to get Manson in jail, write a book called Helter Skelter, and make a lot of money on this case.

But, what if someone else would have been the lead prosecutor? Would Manson still be convicted of murder, convicted of something lesser, or set free altogether? And, what would the implications have been?
 
Quite possibly Buck Compton. And you don't actually have to at the scene to be guilty. If a murder is done at your direction then you are just as guilty as the person with the gun, knife, hands, blunt instrument or pillow
 
Buck Compton

I looked up Buck Compton in Wikipedia. It doesn't say much about what his style of prosecution was, but it just says that he successfully prosecuted Sirhan Sirhan for RFK's murder and that Reagan appointed him in 1970 as Associate Justice in the California Appeals Court.

However, I think that we may have had a different outcome if he was prosecutor. I don't think the Helter Skelter motive would have come up. Bugliosi made a lot of money off of Manson. Now, I agree that Manson is guilty of conspiracy, but, I was looking at some YouTube vids about this case, and the person that was talking about Manson brought up some good points:

1. When Nixon announced that Manson was guilty, shouldn't that have been grounds for a mis-trial? He couldn't have gotten a fair trial after that, which is supposed to be guaranteed to everyone.

2. The site of the trial. It was in Los Angeles. The person that made that video said that LA hated hippies. And, Manson was portrayed as a hippie guru freak, even though he wasn't actually a hippie, but a beatnik. Also, he said that the trial should have been in San Fransisco, but the judge wouldn't allow it. There was no way you were going to get an unbiased jury in LA.
 
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