Prosecutors drop case in Ramsey slaying
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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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Officials dropped charges Monday against the senior investigator whose corruption probe led to the suspension of South Africa's national police chief and escalated tensions between prosecutors and police.
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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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A judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit  against Fox News filed by the parents of murdered child beauty  queen JonBenet Ramsey, saying the network did not defame the  couple or their son.
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Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday against a Texas man who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he may not have committed.
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The criminal case against Kobe Bryant case collapsed Wednesday as prosecutors said they had no choice but to drop the sexual assault charge because the NBA star's accuser no longer wanted to participate.
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U.S. prosecutors have dropped a  three-year investigation into whether at least four CIA  officers lied to lawmakers and agency superiors about a secret  anti-drug operation in Peru that ended in 2001, a Justice  Department spokesman said on Saturday.
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DNA tests that lawyers for a convicted killer hoped would help clear him of two dozen murders were inconclusive, the man's defense attorney said Monday.
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Federal prosecutors Friday dropped a charge that an alleged fundraiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas gave material support to terrorists &#151; a move that stunned defense attorneys.
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A murder charge filed this year based on DNA tests unavailable when the victim was strangled in 1980 is being dropped because more testing made the case difficult to prove, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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Prosecutors dropped Medicaid fraud charges against former Gov. Don Siegelman and a top aide Tuesday after a judge threw out a conspiracy charge that was the linchpin of the case.
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Prosecutors on Tuesday reduced the attempted murder charges against two more teenagers among the "Jena Six," a group of black high school students who were arrested following an attack on a white schoolmate.
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The child pornography case against John Mark Karr, one-time suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case, should be dropped because key evidence was lost, defense attorneys argued Wednesday.
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DNA taken from a child rape victim cleared a 23-year-old man charged in the case, prompting prosecutors to ask Wednesday for the charges to be dismissed.
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A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged.
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The Kobe Bryant case collapses as prosecutors said they had no choice but to drop the sexual assault charge against Bryant because the alleged victim could no longer participate.
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The Medicaid fraud prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman and a top aide ended Tuesday when a judge threw out the conspiracy charge at the heart of the case and prosecutors dropped a remaining count.