DA to Drop Murder Case Against Tankleff
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Martin H. Tankleff, who spent nearly half his life in jail for the 1988 murders of his parents, will not be retried, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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U.S. prosecutors on Friday dropped criminal securities fraud charges against a former New York Stock Exchange floor trader, after dropping a similar charge against another defendant late last month.
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A judge dismissed an indictment Friday against convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, ruling that the state waited too long to try him for capital murder in the death of an FBI analyst who was shot in a store parking lot.
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NEW YORK - A man who told police he bit the head off a rooster accepted a prosecution offer Monday to drop the case if he is not rearrested within the next six months.
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An Italian prosecutor said on Friday he expects to appeal a Rome court's decision to drop a murder case against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
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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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Media & professional: Prosecutors drop one count of money-laundering against tycoon.
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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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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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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 government's case against a Marine accused of fatally shooting Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha lacks sufficient evidence to go to a court-martial and should be dropped, a hearing officer determined.
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South African police have dropped charges against a businessman accused of involvement in an international nuclear smuggling network.
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The Marine Corps has dropped charges against the commander of the Marine company involved in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
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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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Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota acknowledged yesterday that his former law firm represented the son of the man who Martin Tankleff&#39;s defense attorneys say ordered the September 1988 murders of Tankleff&#39;s parents, Arlene and ...
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A man accused of murder for a fatal auto crash will not be retried on that charge because prosecutors failed to disclose that an expert witness made numerous errors at the police department crime lab, a judge ruled.
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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.