For the sake of a debate, why wouldn't you? (just sticking to drug kingpin and not including the murder for hire stuff...)

I would not skip that stuff, because that inevitably comes into it.

Murder for hire charges were dismissed.

Cool. That doesn't change things one bit; he still tried to have someone killed because he thought they were a threat to his empire. He is no freedom fighter, he is no crusader, he is a common drug dealer.

Because he's already serving consecutive life sentences and the prosecutor sees no state interest in pursuing a conviction when the defendant is already going to spend the rest of his life in jail.