Seems like in 'big cases' (such as the Epstein one) when there's a ton of victims, the plaintiff's attorney and/or DA selects a handful of victims or sometimes even just one - the one(s) with the most solid evidence, the most credible, corroborated cases (with multiple witnesses willing to testify to the same thing) - to do the prosecution with.
I was such a witness/victim of a violent crime who was chosen as "the case" to try out of a handful of similar cases against the same perpetrators. The way my police detective explained it to me, what typically happens is if a perp is prosecuted for the same crime a dozen times, 100 times, 1,000 times, however many times, even if the perp is found guilty for each instance, the sentence for each crime usually "runs concurrently."
Translation - if some scumbag rapes 10 women and gets a 10-year sentence for each rape, the perp often wouldn't be sentenced to 100 years - they'd just get 10 years. Therefore, the prosecutor tries to find the absolute strongest case(s) and witnesses against that perp in order to at least get any prosecution at all.
Seems like in 'big cases' (such as the Epstein one) when there's a ton of victims, the plaintiff's attorney and/or DA selects a handful of victims or sometimes even just one - the one(s) with the most solid evidence, the most credible, corroborated cases (with multiple witnesses willing to testify to the same thing) - to do the prosecution with.
I was such a witness/victim of a violent crime who was chosen as "the case" to try out of a handful of similar cases against the same perpetrators. The way my police detective explained it to me, what typically happens is if a perp is prosecuted for the same crime a dozen times, 100 times, 1,000 times, however many times, even if the perp is found guilty for each instance, the sentence for each crime usually "runs concurrently."
Translation - if some scumbag rapes 10 women and gets a 10-year sentence for each rape, the perp often wouldn't be sentenced to 100 years - they'd just get 10 years. Therefore, the prosecutor tries to find the absolute strongest case(s) and witnesses against that perp in order to at least get any prosecution at all.