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'No longer need discovery': Trump admin wants Abrego Garcia case dismissed without revealing whether court orders were defied (lawandcrime.com)

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[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

It actually happens a lot, but it's not the judge who dismisses it, but the prosecutor's office.

There are plenty of times where the prosecutor pursues bogus charges to intimidate a citizen into taking a plea deal of a lesser charge. And if the citizen fights to go to a jury trial, the prosecutor will drop the charges so it can't go on record that they are clearly acting corruptly to protect their own.

Like this case where a citizen was arrested for calling a cop a dumbass and afterwards the prosecutor attempted to trump up the charges to aggravated assault and then dismissed charges like a week before his jury trial.