Sentence examples for drop a charge from inspiring English sources

The government agreed to drop a charge of piracy, which carries a mandatory life sentence.

Prosecutors also agreed to drop a charge of piracy, which carried a mandatory life sentence.

Bradley Manning decided on Thursday not to drop a charge accusing Private Manning of "aiding the enemy".

Bradley Manning is expected to decide Thursday whether to drop a charge accusing Private Manning of "aiding the enemy" that could put him in prison for life.

The Vietnamese police plan to charge the British glam rocker Gary Glitter with child molestation and to drop a charge of child rape, his Vietnamese lawyer said yesterday, Reuters reported.

The witnesses came forward nearly two years after two state troopers shot at unarmed minority men in a van on the turnpike, but their accounts led state prosecutors to drop a charge of attempted murder against one of the troopers last week.

Mr. Farrell dropped a charge that the civil liberties lawyers had violated a court order on confidentiality.

In return, prosecutors dropped a charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

The military also dropped a charge that Airman al-Halabi had, without authorization, given pieces of baklava to some detainees.

Also on Thursday, the government dropped a charge of insider trading on shares of the telecommunications company Avaya, which was sold to two private equity firms in 2007.

In exchange for Mr. Connaghan's manslaughter plea, the state dropped a charge that he had violated a state law against booby traps.