My case became criminal, when it should have remained in family court, because my accuser went to a police officer who bought into her false narrative. I was arrested not because a prosecutor believed there was an actual case to prosecute, but because the law endorsement officer went to a lower-level magistrate to obtain a signed arrest warrant.
Magistrate judges oftentimes, at least in my home state of South Carolina, are not lawyers who are familiar with criminal proceedings. As such, a magistrate cannot sign off on a bond for a class-A felony charge, but they can sign-off on the arrest warrant for a class-A felony charge. The reason that I was held in jail for four days, even though charges against me were eventually dropped without so much as a formal hearing, is because my warrant was signed by a magistrate who did not have the authority to sign off on bond.
By reforming criminal law proceedings to require the signature of an actual prosecutor or criminal court (General Sessions) judge on arrest warrants for felony charges, society can curtail the abuse of the criminal justice system. Had the warrant for my arrest been require to-be-signed by a prosecutor or judge in the Court of General Sessions, I would never have been arrested.