Exactly.

Jim Dwyer in the NYTimes:

What is so wrong with the original plan to hold a trial for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to decide if he committed an act of sexual violence against a hotel housekeeper?
...
With a jury trial, 12 people would decide the most important questions, which do not include who will run for president of France next year or if Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, messed things up. Bringing charges and then dropping them is not a dishonorable act. Letting criminals get away with ugly crimes is another story.

In the end, the only thing that matters is if Mr. Strauss-Kahn assaulted the housekeeper. His lawyers say he is innocent, a status he maintains until a jury finds otherwise. The housekeeper insists that she was the victim of a crime, said her lawyer, Kenneth P. Thompson. He disputes the translation of a taped phone call, made the day after the encounter, that the authorities believe shows her to be thinking about exploiting Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s wealth.

“She wants to testify to the world what Mr. Strauss-Kahn did to her, and she is willing to be hammered on cross-examination,” Mr. Thompson said. “You don’t have to come over on the Mayflower to be the victim of a crime.”

You see,
if they drop the charges now, the scuzzball walks away, as if he should be owed an apology, instead of humbly thanking his lucky stars that he got away with ... something. (At the very least, an act of prostitution gone wrong. Too much semen at the scene, you see...)

Nevermind Cyrus Vance, Jr.'s problems.
Let's put the blame back where it should be focused. If the wife wants to deny reality, and pretend he's a Prince Charming, fine. But please don't make the rest of us pretend this is a fine upstanding man who got a raw deal by a rogue prosectutor acting too fast...

Charge him, (there's enough evidence to satisfy a preliminary hearing) and then do your damnest making the guy defend himself in a court of law.

"I don't know how my semen got on that low-class housekeeper lady. I'd never be with someone of that kind of character and reputation, you see..."