drop a case

It was the only time in recent memory that I'd wanted to drop a case.

They were not dropping the case - did the Yard ever drop a case?

Before dropping a case, prosecutors try to determine, among other things, whether failing to pursue it would leave society at large at risk.

The authorities last week dropped a case against two boys who used nets to scoop coins from the fountain, newspapers reported today.

Every two weeks, Marty the seltzer man drops a case of seltzer off at our back door.

Graymail is used as a defense tactic, forcing the government to drop a case to avoid revealing national secrets.

Unlike the courts and state agencies, Mr. Levin said, private collectors do not drop a case when the defaulting parent moves to another jurisdiction.

In the past, defendants have used the threat of disclosing secrets and intelligence gathering operations in open court to persuade the government to drop a case.

The shooters are in the employ of crime boss Arnold Zeck, who wants Wolfe to drop a case that could lead back to him.

As additional cargo is unloaded, an especially heavy case arouses the second mate's suspicion, and he has the man operating the crane "accidentally" drop a case.

As Chris and Sheva make their way aboard the tanker, they come across Excella, who escapes, but drops a case of syringes.

Although a criminal case is an offense against the state as well as the individual, the state ordinarily would have to drop a case if the victim withheld vital evidence.

The new law also imposed new fees of $45 for every written motion filed, $35 for a stipulation to a settlement and $35 for dropping a case.

"If someone were on a deserted island, and you dropped a case of Oreos, you don't have to do market research to know it will be consumed," Mr. Carbonell said.

A top official at the Interior Ministry said over the weekend that an investigative judge had dropped a case against several police officers accused in February of raping a 20-year-old Sunni Arab woman.

C1 U.S. Drops Case Against China The United States said it was dropping a case against China after settling a dispute over China's tax on imported semiconductors.

A senior Clinton administration official said of Mr. Ashcroft: "I don't think you can automatically say he is going to back away from the case; it would look bad to drop a case that has already been won.

The largest client, an evil and greedy industrialist in cahoots with other influential and environmentally insensitive businessmen, has pressured the firm to drop a case filed against a lumber magnate on behalf of an endangered bird.

Florida prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a case charging Mayor Buddy Dyer of Orlando with violating election law, and Gov. Jeb Bush reinstated Mr. Dyer after a six-week suspension.

The Federal Election Commission has lost internal documents that would shed light on why it dropped a case against Senator Bob Dole's 1980 Presidential campaign and Mr. Dole's wife, Elizabeth Hanford Dole.

In 1995, with Brown's political career at a low point, in the motion picture Jade, the fictional Governor of California tells an assistant district attorney to drop a case, "unless you want as much of a future in this state as Jerry Brown."

In other cases, formal plea bargains in Pakistan are limited, but the prosecutor has the authority to drop a case or a charge in a case and, in practice, often does so, in return for a defendant pleading guilty on some lesser charge.

"A prosecutor is allowed and indeed ethically obligated to drop a case if he or she no longer believes it is justified under the law or the evidence," said Evan Barr, a former federal prosecutor in the United States attorney's office in Manhattan.

The prosecutor, Mohammad Al Nuaimi, was quoted as saying, "It is definite that he committed the crime as he was caught red-handed ... however in certain cases and for a faster litigation process the Public Prosecution drops a case due to insignificance and deports the suspect.

In "Possessed", Moredock drops a case that ADA Gill Hardwicke was trying where the statute of limitations had run out, the perpetrator a pedophile who was now in his elderly years, he was let go and one of his first victims killed him after he kidnapped a young girl.