bring charges against
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Greg Risling, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, declined to say why prosecutors didn’t bring charges against Reyes and Luque for nearly three years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
O’Connor agreed that courts have limited ability to second-guess decisions to drop or not bring charges against defendants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
The district attorney in the Bronx declined to bring charges against the officers.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Selective prosecution motions are notoriously difficult to win because they require defendants to prove, in effect, that prosecutors discriminated against them by failing to bring charges against “similarly situated individuals.”
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024
It is too late to bring charges against either section now—too late to bring charges against individuals.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
