Councilmanâs Rape Charge Dismissed
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A State Supreme Court justice said prosecutors prejudiced members of a grand jury against Dennis P. Gallagher.
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Fresno County prosecutors dropped assault charges Wednesday against a 15-year-old autistic boy accused of shoving his special-education teacher and throwing two chairs against a wall.
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Criminal charges against National Basketball Association star Kobe Bryant were dropped, clearing him in the alleged rape last year of a 19-year-old woman at a Colorado resort.
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The Air Force has dropped a criminal indecency charge filed against a female airman who refused to testify against another airman she accused of raping her, her lawyer said Friday.
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District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said he filed the motion to dismiss the criminal case Wednesday because Bryant&#39;s 20-year-old accuser was no longer willing to testify.
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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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A British panel on Wednesday dismissed a high-profile sexual discrimination suit filed by a former executive against Merrill Lynch, but ruled that the woman who made the
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MULTAN, Pakistan: Four police officers have been sacked for failing to arrest enough suspects after the rape of four young girls in a small town in Pakistan&#39;s eastern Punjab province, a police official said yesterday.
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A judge dismissed charges against a New Brunswick blogger after he was arrested while reporting at a protest.
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BAGHDAD -- The US military yesterday weighed into the politically explosive case of a Sunni woman allegedly raped last weekend by three Iraqi police officers, announcing its own investigation after the Shi'ite-run government dismissed her allegations as false.
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A federal judge dismissed charges Wednesday against two jail guards accused of beating an inmate, saying prosecutors had not proven their case.
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Mayor Kevin Jackson and Rio Rancho City Council members have nothing to be proud of regarding the firing of City Manager Jim Palenick.   It has turned out to be a classic example of cowardly, irresponsible governance by council members and the mayor.
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Former Salt Lake County mayor Nancy Workman was acquitted Thursday of misusing public funds, a charge that prompted her to abandon her re-election bid last fall.
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A judge has dismissed assault charges against rapper Loon, who was arrested in February after a security guard was stabbed outside a nightclub.
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A Tampa, Fla., judge dismisses a domestic violence charge against newly acquired Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes after the woman fails to appear in court Tuesday.
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Prosecutors dropped sexual assault charges against two high school football players accused of raping a 15-year-old schoolmate. Charges against the boys, ages 15 and 17, were dropped Wednesday.
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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 on the indictment paperwork.