press charges

"Does that mean you're going to press charges for rape?"

You've bought yourself a real problem here; Roosevelt says he s going to press charges.

Who's going to believe there was someone in the store, much less press charges?

"The real question is whether we're going to press charges against you."

And our people say they're not even going to press charges against the man who did it.

"What do you mean, you're not going to press charges?"

"The good news is we're not going to press charges," she said.

But then, she said that she wasn't going to press charges.

Paige breaks up the fight and tells Dean that she is going to press charges.

She convinced the police not to press charges, but ended the relationship.