Sentence examples for drop the prosecution from inspiring English sources

Irresistible pressure forced them to drop the prosecution," Rose said.

One of Mr. Jackson's lawyers suggested this week that Mr. Sneddon might be forced to drop the prosecution before a trial.

We, the undersigned, call on Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos to drop the prosecution of journalist Rafael Marques de Morais.

Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the move to drop the prosecution.

The investigating judge in the case will now decide whether or not to drop the prosecution.

"The decision to drop the prosecution on a technicality does not negate the fact that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the extremists behind this fraud," said Melaney Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

Only the tribunal's Gambian chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has the power to drop the prosecutions.

But the president of the State Troopers Fraternal Association, Edward H. Lennon, responded furiously, calling Mr. Farmer's decision to drop the prosecutions expedient but reprehensible.

A week or so later, the attorney general dropped the prosecution.

it announced it was dropping the prosecution of 14 more people.

Despite numerous requests, including from the Registrar of the ICTR asking for the proceedings to be dropped, the prosecution refused, stating that his release "… will not deter the prosecution as we finalise the case against Mr Erlinder.