Murder charges dropped against father
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A judge dropped murder and arson charges against a man accused of setting his house on fire, killing his wife and son, because prosecutors failed to bring him to trial quickly.
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The father of a four-year-old boy who died from stab wounds in Huddersfield is charged with his murder.
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Prosecutors dropped criminal charges against the former head of the Canadian Red Cross on Friday, clearing him of responsibility in a tainted-blood scandal that infected thousands with HIV or hepatitis and left more than 3,000 dead.
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Martin Tankleff walked out of court a free man for the first time in the 17 years since he was convicted of murdering his parents. But his next step was less clear.
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A judge has dropped criminal charges against the daughter of Peru's fugitive ex-President Alberto Fujimori that carried a sentence of five years in prison.
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Saying the autopsy report was wrong, a prosecutor Friday dismissed a murder charge against a mother accused of killing her severely disabled daughter with an overdose of medication.
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Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen.
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The state prosecutors office in Berlin has dropped an investigation into a complaint filed by a 44-year-old woman who claims Paul McCartney is her father and that the former Beatle manipulated a paternity test in 1984.
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A 29-year-old man is charged with murdering a father of six who was stabbed on Christmas Day.
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RALEIGH, N.C.  -- Officials dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles, after a grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box by mistake on the indictment paperwork.
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A man arrested on suspicion of murdering five women speaks of his relief at being told he faces no charges.
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Australian prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against a paparazzi photographer accused of planting a bugging device outside the Sydney mansion of movie siren Nicole Kidman.
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Charges have been dismissed against the former commander of a detention facility where an Iraqi prisoner was dragged by the neck and later died.
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Two men are found guilty of a father's murder in Aberdeen and a third of culpable homicide.
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A Louisiana prosecutor has dropped an appeal in the case of a 17-year-old accused of assaulting a school mate in a decision that could hasten the release of the youth at the center of civil rights protests.
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Prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a nurse accused of failing to report bruises on a child who was later shaken to death by his foster father. The case led to an overhaul of Missouri's child-welfare system.
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A 18-year-old charged with murdering a young father who was shot dead near his home appears in court.