Opera star's DWI case dropped in NYC
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A drunken-driving case against opera singer Jerry Hadley &#151; who was arrested while sitting in a parked car &#151; was dismissed at the request of prosecutors.
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Prosecutors moved Friday to drop the murder case against a man freed after nearly a decade in prison, but stopped short of saying he was exonerated by the DNA evidence that led a judge to overturn his conviction.
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Prosecutors dropped a criminal   securities fraud charge against former New York Stock Exchange   specialist Kevin Fee, who had been slated to go on trial   October 3, court documents showed.
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Charges against a man accused of planting a listening device at Nicole Kidman's home are dropped.
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A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged.
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Rape charges were dropped Tuesday against former Wisconsin running back Dwayne Smith and his friend after questions were raised about the credibility of the alleged victim.
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Charges were dropped Monday against a man accused of shooting into a crowd of people watching a downtown fireworks display because DNA test results did not match him with the evidence.
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An Italian court dropped a murder case against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Iraq on the grounds that it did not have jurisdiction, lawyers said on Thursday.
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In a surprise move in his first appearance since taking over as his own lawyer, Anthony Pellicano, the embattled Hollywood private investigator, withdrew his request for a hearing into allegations that the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by using his former girlfriend to elicit confidential information, The Los Angeles Times reported. In withdrawing the request, Mr. Pellicano, who is facing trial on wiretapping and conspiracy charges, told Judge Dale S. Fischer of United States District Court, âI donât believe I had any chance of prevailing.â The accusation of prosecutorial misconduct was a crucial element in the defense of the lawyers who previously represented Mr. Pellicano. Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the United States Attorneyâs Office in Los Angeles, expressed satisfaction with the withdrawal and said, âWe have always believed that the motion was unfounded.â The judge plans to begin the trial on Feb. 27.
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An Italian court on Thursday dropped a murder trial against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq for lack of jurisdiction, removing a thorn from relations between Rome and Washington.
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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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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 28 -- Prosecutors dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the decade-old killing of JonBenet Ramsey on Monday, abruptly ending a 12-day whirlwind that reached halfway around the globe and riveted public attention over whether the slaying of the child pageant star had at...
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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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ROME - Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal yesterday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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NBC released a statement saying that the upcoming &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; spinoff &quot;Trial by Jury&quot; which was to star Jerry Orbach will continue on without the late actor.
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The district attorney dropped a defamation charge against a man accused of driving his ex-boss to suicide, saying the charge was probably unconstitutional.
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Authorities dropped an assault charge filed against the lead singer of Australian rock band The Vines after his lawyers said he has Asperger's syndrome, according to reports Saturday.