Amnesty International called on the police to drop the charges.
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The decision to drop the charges against Smollett angered some.
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But federal prosecutors had refused to drop the charges against her.
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"The victim is requesting to drop the charges," my investigator Jeff said.
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Federal prosecutors reached an agreement in March 2019 to drop the charges.
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Gilbert begged my dad to drop the charges, but my father refused.
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The magistrates followed the prosecutors' recommendation to drop the charges against Airbus.
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Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery had little choice but to drop the charges.
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A Cook County judge on Thursday approved prosecutors' decision to drop the charges.
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She upheld Mueller's constitutional authority and rejected a bid to drop the charges.
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We got some measure of satisfaction when officials agreed to drop the charges.
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They even proposed to drop the charges if Reuters agreed to drop the story.
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But she and Ms. Cheung were unable to persuade prosecutors to drop the charges.
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Theoretically, the EU could plumb the issue and then decide to drop the charges.
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So far, there's no indication that police will drop the charges, according to The Tennesseean.
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"Drop the charges," the crowd chanted, referring to those who were arrested the night before.
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Brazil should drop the charges immediately and stop its attacks on a free and open press.
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She tells Conlin to drop the charges or she's taking the recording to the attorney general.
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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... the City Attorney's Office will officially drop the charges against Mac.
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Mr. Deakin had to drop the charges against Mr. McNair to make time for the test.
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None of the released records show Ms. Foxx interceding to make her office drop the charges.
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But the judges could also drop the charges completely if they fail to uncover sufficient evidence.
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In June, Geimer filed a request that the state drop the charges against Polanski, which was denied.
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Of course, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office decided to drop the charges altogether just this week.
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It took days for the Sheriff's Office to admit the mistake and drop the charges against him.
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The magistrates can drop the charges if they do not believe the evidence is sufficient to proceed.
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The case was closed in 203 when Boris Zonis decided to drop the charges, Religion News reports.
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If you want to live, she was told by the politician's friends, you better drop the charges.
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If you want to live, she was told by the politician's friends, you better drop the charges.
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The obvious question is asked ... why take the case to a grand jury, only to drop the charges?
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Mimi Arbeit, an organizer with Standing Up for Racial Justice Charlottesville, said the city should drop the charges.
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Even if Tommy does change his mind, it may not be up to him to drop the charges.
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The investigation will continue and Mr. Fillon could then stand trial, or the magistrates could drop the charges.
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Bangladesh must immediately release him and the arrested student protesters from prison and drop the charges against them.
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The decision to drop the charges caught many by surprise, including lawyers for Mr. Menendez and Dr. Melgen.
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The newspaper condemned his "inappropriate and highly disturbing" arrest and demanded the police to drop the charges against him.
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Since this is Seymour's first offense ... prosecutors have agreed to drop the charges if she completes the alcohol program.
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Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other rights groups had urged Bahraini authorities on Sunday to drop the charges.
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Such generic "he's-a-good-guy-can't-you-drop-the-charges?" statements are routinely made to investigators and prosecutors.
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Department of Justice spokesman Carl Kanefsky said with Sarro&aposs death, a notice will be filed to drop the charges.
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Additionally, the school district sent a statement to CNN on Friday indicating that the paraprofessional requested to drop the charges.
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Parents and community leaders protested, and the Rutherford County prosecutor, Jennings Jones, said Thursday that he would drop the charges.
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But the High Court last month ordered a review of the NPA's decision to drop the charges, terming it "irrational".
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He was accused of staging the incident, arrested and indicted, only to have prosecutors unexpectedly drop the charges on Tuesday.
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During the trip, Mr. Kuhn repeatedly offered to bribe Mr. Nadjari to drop the charges or simply let him escape.
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It's common for defendants in criminal cases to ask judges to drop the charges or throw out a jury conviction.
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Human Rights Watch also urged the Myanmar authorities to drop the charges, calling the arrests "a serious blow to media freedom".
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The prosecutors' decision to drop the charges marks the end of the case, which saw six officers charged over the death.
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But the magistrates can later drop the charges if they do not believe the evidence is sufficient to proceed to trial.
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Evans has called for the Harris County District Attorney's Office to drop the charges and is requesting a civil rights investigation.
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He had asked the court to drop the charges saying the state had failed to prove he had a case to answer.
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The girl was charged with theft and obstruction of justice, but Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley asked the prosecutor to drop the charges.
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But, prosecutors tell us they agreed to drop the charges on Monday as long as McKinley completes a misdemeanor pretrial diversion program.
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"Anyone who commits a crime will be feeling that kind of regret, but that's not enough to drop the charges," he said.
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The others could decide to fight, and that would mean criminal trials unless the district attorney decided now to drop the charges.
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The actor posed for photos with supporters at the courthouse where the emergency hearing to drop the charges against him was held.
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Park was soon convinced to drop the charges against Lee Byung-chull, who was already the richest man in Korea at the time.
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A court ruled last year that the decision to drop the charges, on the eve of Mr Zuma's election in 2009, was "irrational".
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Mr Zuma faces the reinstatement of 783 counts of corruption after a court ruled that a decision to drop the charges was "irrational".
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Ortiz failed to appear for TWO scheduled depositions in the case ... leaving prosecutors with no choice but to drop the charges against Anderson.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed the news of Branson&aposs release on Twitter, but called on Turkish authorities to drop the charges.
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Smith and Arendt entered a pretrial intervention program that could lead prosecutors to drop the charges against them, according to Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.
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A lower court now has 60 days to decide whether he should get a new trial; prosecutors could also choose to drop the charges.
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While Donesha was cited by the police, Mr. Cranley asked prosecutors to drop the charges, according to his statement, and the case was dismissed.
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Before the trial, Manafort's lawyers asked the judge to drop the charges because they weren't directly related to Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
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The decision to drop the charges does not mean the actor was innocent or any new evidence was presented, Magats told CNN affiliate WLS.
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Sapp cut a huge deal to keep him out of jail in the hooker case -- officials would drop the charges when he finished counseling.
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But it won't be Beijing which is putting pressure on the US to drop the charges -- at least not explicitly as it's doing with Canada.
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At the hearing, Santiago told Tekashi's attorney that he wanted to drop the charges, and also apparently said he'd expressed that to the prosecution too.
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His was the only case in which a federal judge questioned the Justice Department's request to drop the charges, but the judge later approved it.
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Police Lieutenant Tun Tun Win and an immigration officer - the complainants - appeared in a Naypyitaw courtroom on Tuesday and asked that the court drop the charges.
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The prosecution applied to terminate the case for lack of evidence, but six weeks ago a magistrate in a lower court refused to drop the charges.
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Human rights campaigners have rallied behind Maknun, issuing a joint statement on Wednesday calling on the Indonesian president to grant an amnesty and drop the charges.
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Police Lieutenant Tun Tun Win and an immigration officer - the complainants - on Tuesday appeared in a Naypyitaw courtroom and asked that the court drop the charges.
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The City Press newspaper reported on Sunday that the office of state prosecutor Shaun Abrahams had drafted a letter indicating his intention to drop the charges.
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When Jennifer was first reported missing by her family, "they had indicated that [Joey] was trying to get her to drop the charges against him," says Silva.
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However, all seemed to be resolved by August of the same year, as both men reportedly agreed to drop the charges they had filed against each other.
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Prosecutors have offered to drop the charges in exchange for fines, community service, and an admission that Kraft would be found guilty if he went to trial.
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The ruling to review the decision to drop the charges was yet another blow for Zuma, who has been dogged by controversy for much of his presidency.
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" On Wednesday, Wright said the decision to drop the charges against Sessions "avoids the most basic level of accountability" and "fails both Mr. Sessions and the denomination.
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"It's not too late for the government to unconditionally drop the charges and let them go home to their families," said the group's chief executive, Matthew Smith.
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In August, Webb was appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate the decision to drop the charges -- and was given authority to file new charges as appropriate.
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Chicago's mayor and police superintendent both harshly criticized the decision to drop the charges, and said they still believe the "Empire" actor staged the attack on himself.
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But five years after raiding his business and indicting him, federal authorities quietly cut a deal with Roh earlier this year and agreed to drop the charges. Why?
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The top official at the FBI's Washington office, Joseph Persichini, said he was "disappointed" in the decision to drop the charges and commended the work of FBI agents.
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When Guevara, his supervisor, and other officers refused to testify about their investigation, prosecutors had to drop the charges and let Maysonet go after 27 years in prison.
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Cat Wilkinson, whose brother Aiden died in the attack, said the families of the victims had not been notified in advance of the decision to drop the charges.
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But when a witness is deported, Barba is forced to drop the charges against a suspect and protests turn violent, leading a desperate Benson to make an arrest.
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State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said Thursday that State had no role in the decision to drop the charges and that it was solely a Justice Department decision.
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On June 18, Color of Change, a civil rights coalition group, delivered a petition that had been signed by 50,000 people, urging officials to drop the charges against Clemons.
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The jury failed to agree on a verdict, the prosecution ended with a mistrial, and the Justice Department decided to drop the charges rather than try a second time.
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But Terry told the newspaper that he's pressuring prosecutors to drop the charges against the mother, as Remington's death was recently ruled an accident by the Douglas County Medical Examiner.
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"Today as you have figured out, the state made a motion to drop the charges against Jussie Smollett and to seal the record in this case," she said in March.
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The officers began looking for Watts after she told them he was sending her text messages and calling her to try and convince her to drop the charges against him.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. says his accuser's own words show she has a "warped mental state" ... and, therefore, the D.A. should drop the charges against him for the alleged groping incident.
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At the time the state's attorney's office said its decision to drop the charges as part of an agreement with Smollett to forfeit his $10,000 bond was a just outcome.
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Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman, said that Eddie Johnson, the police superintendent, had not been aware of the decision to drop the charges until Tuesday's court hearing had already concluded.
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Shapiro thinks it's straight-up ridiculous that the 77-year-old is going through this ... telling us prosecutors in the case should just drop the charges now and move on.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. just arrived to a Manhattan courthouse for a hearing in his groping case ... and the actor is trying to convince the D.A. to drop the charges against him.
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But on Wednesday Mosby said she had no choice but to drop the charges -- ending a 20153-month legal saga that strained relations between her office and the city's police department.
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A few days after the hospital assault, one of the police officers who threatened Azim to drop the charges at the local station was transferred to a post inside the hospital.
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After the incident on the street, the woman Gomez was accused of assaulting said he urged her to write a letter to the district attorney asking him to drop the charges.
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Mr. Basuki was put on trial for blasphemy, but one day after the election, prosecutors decided to drop the charges — reinforcing the widespread belief that the whole case was politically motivated.
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Foxx, in office since late 2016, said the decision to drop the charges also reflected her campaign promise to reform the criminal justice system in the nation's second-most populous county.
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Like so many Chicagoans, she had followed the story from the beginning, and found herself "profoundly depressed" by the decision by the Cook County State's Attorney's office to drop the charges.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar court dismissed on Friday a case against three senior journalists from the country's largest private newspaper, after authorities in the city of Yangon agreed to drop the charges.
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U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal that the prosecutors were not pressured to drop the charges, saying that investigators had misidentified some suspects and did not have enough evidence against others.
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Ms. Webb said she filed a motion of discovery to see the video and watched it just days before her scheduled court appearance on July 9, leading prosecutors to drop the charges.
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But in a deferred prosecution agreement, the feds said they would drop the charges if, within two years, the bank adopted a proper compliance system and paid $2.6 billion in fines and penalties.
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Only two men of the 42 were referred to prosecution for illegal entry, but the Justice Department was later asked to drop the charges because of medical issues, an official told BuzzFeed News.
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The attorney general confirmed that the Dubai Public Prosecution office had closed their investigation into Holman and said, "The prosecution decided to drop the charges against Ellie Hollman and to deport her instead."
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The High Court ruled last month that the April 2009 decision to drop the charges, which allowed Zuma to run for president in elections the same month, was irrational and should be reviewed.
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"I regret that his liberties have been denied these past two years," Murphy told reporters after meeting Sokha, calling for the government to drop the charges and restore the opposition leader's political freedom.
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Department officials denied that the decision to drop the charges was intended to dismantle Mr. Mueller's work, noting that prosecutors are still pursuing charges against the 13 Russians and the Internet Research Agency.
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Department officials denied that the decision to drop the charges was intended to dismantle Mr. Mueller's work, noting that prosecutors are still pursuing charges against the 13 Russians and the Internet Research Agency.
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Although one Hydra shop owner interviewed last year said he sometimes kept his droppers out of jail by bribing police officers 500,173 rubles ($6,800) to drop the charges, some are not so lucky.
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After announcing his decision to drop the charges, Spitzer apologized to the alleged victims and said he will meet with them to explain why the evidence did not meet their burden of proof.
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First Assistant to the State's Attorney Joseph Magats says they decided to drop the charges because it wasn't a violent crime -- and thought Jussie coughing up $10k and doing community service sufficed as punishment.
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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a group formed by opposition activists during the junta era to monitor the well-being of political prisoners, called on the government to drop the charges against the protesters.
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Two of the arrested migrants had been referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution, but US Customs and Border Patrol later asked the DOJ to drop the charges, an administration official told CNN.
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Bloomberg recently reported that in 2017, Trump tried to persuade his former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to convince the Department of Justice to drop the charges against Zarrab, which Tillerson refused to do.
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News of Giuliani's involvement comes just days after it was reported that Trump himself at one time pressured Tillerson to convince the Justice Department to drop the charges, to which Zarrab later pleaded guilty.
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Out of 42 people arrested — 27 men and 15 women and children — only two were referred for prosecution for illegal entry, but the Justice Department was asked to drop the charges due to medical issues.
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A range of experts agreed on Wednesday that the president had the legal authority to order the government to rescind the extradition request for the executive, Meng Wanzhou, or even drop the charges against her.
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With their sole defendant dead, the New York feds prosecuting his criminal case moved to drop the charges of sex trafficking minors and sex trafficking conspiracy that had been lodged against Epstein in early July.
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One of the team members, Shawn McDonald, a Houston lawyer, said on Monday that he was not involved in the decision to drop the charges and pushed back at Mr. Lambert's criticism of the team's performance.
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Prosecutors offered to drop the charges against Kraft and 24 other men in exchange for fines, community service and an admission they would be found guilty in court, according to the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office.
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The princess' lawyer asked a judge to drop the charges against his client on Monday, saying that the accusations she faces have only been brought up in a complaint from an anti-corruption group, the BBC reported.
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Read: She wanted to be president, but ended up in jail International pressure to "Free the Rwigaras" had been building ahead of Thursday's hearing, including calls to drop the charges from a group of US congress members.
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Some, including the president of Baltimore's police union, are now urging Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby to drop the charges against the officers whose trials are still scheduled throughout the summer and fall, the Baltimore Sun reported.
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But her office's decision to drop the charges led to tensions with the police department, which felt that the $10,000 forfeiture was too little a price to pay for the many hours detectives spent on the case.
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Meantime, an attorney who worked with two brothers who told the grand jury they'd assisted in the fake attack told CNN's Don Lemon that Foxx's office did not notify her about its decision to drop the charges.
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"Who gives a fuck about what I post," she tweeted after learning that defense attorneys were citing photos, videos, and comments from her social media history in an effort to persuade the DA's Office to drop the charges.
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"If Cambodia wants to show that this court has good reforms, that it is good and independent, it will show this by a decision to drop the charges against me because I didn't do anything wrong," Sokha said.
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At this point, the University of Arizona administration no doubt hopes that the county attorney general's office will drop the charges against the students so that the controversy fades away, along with the negative national and international attention.
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MILAN, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Russian government has asked Italy to be "reasonable" over a Russian citizen caught up in a Nigerian graft case in Milan and drop the charges against him, according to legal documents seen by Reuters.
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Smollett has maintained his innocence following the city's decision to drop the charges against him, while some including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) have called for the actor to reimburse law enforcement for the resources spent investigating his case.
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Although it is entirely within the legal rights of our president to press charges, he has decided to drop the charges in an expression of goodwill and in the hope that doing so will help diffuse tension on campus.
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But if he doesn't drop the charges against Mr. Kem Sokha; permit a credible political opposition; and allow The Daily, radio stations and all news outlets to operate freely, the world will know that Cambodia is no longer a democracy.
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The couple has maintained their innocence from the start, and Riley told "Good Morning America" the decision by O.C. District Attorney Todd Spitzer to drop the charges has allowed her to "breathe again" and she feels like she's finally awoken from a nightmare.
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In Georgia, a local prosecutor relied on lab tests provided by an insurer to charge a woman with arson, resulting in a three-year ordeal in which she ended up homeless, only to drop the charges when the test results proved unreliable.
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Prosecutors offered to drop the charges in exchange for fines, community service and an admission that he would be found guilty if he went to trial, but a source familiar with the case told CNN that Kraft would not accept the deal.
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Last week, the state attorney in Palm Beach County offered to drop the charges if Mr. Kraft and the other men agreed to pay a fine, perform community service and agree that if the case went to trial, the prosecutors would win.
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But months later, when the authorities, under international pressure, were looking for an excuse to drop the charges against Mirzayanov, Andrei's signature gave him standing as a witness, and he declared in court that Shkarin had distorted my responses to his questions.
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Deborah Roberts interviews Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was convicted of Ms. Levy's murder; Babs Proller, who secretly recorded conversations with a prison informant that prompted prosecutors to drop the charges against Mr. Guandique; and Ms. Levy's parents.
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First Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Joseph Magats, who took over the prosecution after State's Attorney Kim Foxx recused herself, told the New York Times the decision to drop the charges was appropriate because of the nature of the offense of which Smollett was accused.
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During that time, the statute of limitations on one of the sexual assault cases ran out; the Swedish government also chose to drop the charges on the second sexual assault case because they saw no way to proceed while Assange was in the embassy.
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Lawyers for Martins and Hall continue to call on the DA's Office to drop the charges, accusing prosecutors of ignoring evidence that reveals Anna's "willingness to lie" and of rushing the case forward to satisfy Anna's supporters who want to see the men held accountable.
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Charges have been dropped against 85033 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's security detail that were accused of beating protesters in Washington, D.C. Federal prosecutors made the decision to drop the charges against 11 of the 15 security members in connection with the incident.
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The special prosecutor's office also said its team "obtained sufficient factual evidence to determine that it disagrees" with the resolution to drop the charges by the Cook County State Attorney's Office in exchange for Smollett forfeiting his bond and 15 hours of community service.
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The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Ellen Nakashima report, citing three sources familiar with the situation, that before Sheriff Joe Arpaio's case went to court earlier this year, President Trump asked Attorney General Sessions whether it would be possible for the federal government to drop the charges.
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On April 10, a half-mile line of students and faculty walked single-file into Robbins office to deliver petitions demanding that the university drop the charges against the three students, prioritize investigating the death threats and regulate the presence of the Border Patrol on campus.
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Joe Magats, the prosecutor who made the decision to drop the charges, said in an interview on Tuesday that Mr. Smollett was not a threat to public safety and did not have a violent record, two factors that he considered when deciding whether to drop charges.
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In the deferred prosecution agreement, which was announced in court on Wednesday morning, the US attorney's office agreed to drop the charges against Schock if he reimburses his congressional campaign fund nearly $68,000, pays any related back taxes, and does not violate any laws during the next six months.
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Apparently, Edmondson was initially going to drop the charges and just move on from it, but according to a writer covering the Spartans, he felt offended—as you can see by his references to the altercation occurring in front of his peers—and decided to change his mind.
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Lisa Monaco, former assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism and former assistant attorney general for national security during the Obama administration, said in an email that Trump could legally request that the Justice Department drop the charges against Meng that led to her arrest in Canada.
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Thomas Harvey, Mr. Watson's lawyer, said Mr. Goodman had refused to drop the charges despite what he called problems with evidence, a number of errors made by the prosecutor's office, and an arresting officer who, according to state records, has a history of beating suspects and falsifying reports.
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Brandon was finally served a temporary restraining order on March 2, 2011, which he reacted to by emailing me a copy of the play he was "writing for me" with a promise to cast me as the lead once it went to production, should I agree to drop the charges.
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The decision to drop the charges against Mr. Elam may illustrate the difficulties in pursuing such cases because they require a jury not to hold the victim partly responsible for creating the sexually explicit images in the first place and either sharing them with a former partner or storing them on a cellphone.
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" While critics have urged the state's current attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, to drop the charges because the men have settled other lawsuits making similar claims — or because of Mr. Greenberg's age, 91 — Mr. Ellenhorn said a guilty verdict was needed to "send a message to C.E.O.s of other companies" that "you can't do this sort of thing.
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Shortly after Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced she would drop the charges against the police officers involved in Gray's death, she made it clear that she was only doing it because the system was broken: After much thought and prayer, it has become clear that without being able to work with an independent investigatory agency from the very start, without having a say in the election of whether cases proceed in front of a judge or jury, without communal oversight of police in this community, without substantive reforms to the current criminal justice system, we could try this case 100 times just like it and we would still end up with the same result.
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But Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby released a sobering statement on how much Prosecutor Michael Schatzow's decision to drop the charges rests on the reality that the cards are stacked against justice in the courts: After much thought and prayer, it has become clear that without being able to work with an independent investigatory agency from the very start, without having a say in the election of whether cases proceed in front of a judge or jury, without communal oversight of police in this community, without substantive reforms to the current criminal justice system, we could try this case 100 times just like it and we would still end up with the same result.
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