There was not enough evidence to go to trial, law enforcement officials said.
Journalists watching the trial, law professors following transcripts and even court officials say they have concluded that at least three crucial witnesses gave vague or contradictory testimony.
An eminent figure in U.S. civil trial law, Bob counseled, and litigated on behalf of, a remarkable variety of individual, corporate, and non-profit clients.
"If it is now possible — and Mr. Bulger seriously questions whether it will be possible — for Mr. Bulger to receive a fair trial, law enforcement leaks of non-public information must end".
But his fund-raising blitz occurred just as he was expanding his personal injury and trial law practice into the whistle-blower field, with a television advertising campaign and new Web site.
Of the 54 cases in the marijuana project, the average case lasted 240 days, though the state's speedy trial law sets a target length of 60 days for lower-level misdemeanors.
Even if they feared having the case go to trial, law enforcement officials said they believed there was little doubt that the evidence against Mr. Lindh was strong enough to easily win a guilty verdict, particularly in a Northern Virginia court where jurors are regarded as sympathetic to the government.
Justice Department officials have offered to waive the death penalty in a deal with the French government that would return an anti-abortion activist arrested in the sniper killing of an upstate New York doctor to the United States for trial, law enforcement officials said today.
Since then men who owe their or their family's fortunes to oil, sport, publishing, trial law, ketchup, beer and bestselling autobiographies have followed.But Mr Romney, who earned his $200m or so as a private-equity executive buying and selling companies, is the first candidate from the world of high-octane finance.
TUCSON — Videotaped messages recovered from a computer at the home of Jared L. Loughner, the man accused of opening fire at a congresswoman's public event in Tucson last month, could mean that a jury will hear from Mr. Loughner in his own words even though he is unlikely to testify at trial, law enforcement officials said.
