51.   Her parents said they had been told the case might be dropped if they got counseling for the girl.

52.   Her police chief told her to drop the case.

53.   In court on Wednesday, Leung admitted it was all a ruse, saying he just wanted to get his passport case dropped.

54.   In both of those actions, the landlord, Thurcon Development, agreed to drop the case.

55.   In January, the case was dropped.

56.   In the end, the government dropped the case.

57.   In the past, defendants have used the threat of disclosing secrets and intelligence gathering operations in open court to persuade the government to drop cases.

58.   Initially, city detectives assumed that he had got wildly drunk in the red light district, but the case was not dropped.

59.   Instead, he dropped the case entirely.

60.   Joshi said on the program the case could be dropped if the talks were successful.