1.   Only if a local prosecutor then drops the case, deeming it unwinnable, might a prisoner gain freedom.

2.   And another official said that before Sweeney appears, the prosecutors will probably drop the charge.

3.   At the time the records were sealed, the prosecutors dropped three counts of lewd acts upon a child.

4.   Before trial week, prosecutors unexpectedly dropped the murder charge in exchange for a plea of voluntary manslaughter.

5.   A year later, prosecutors dropped their case against Rothstein without saying why.

6.   After overwhelming publicity suggesting that the punishment did not fit the crime, prosecutors here Tuesday dropped charges against the dog on death row for killing a rooster.

7.   After keeping the former president in jail or under house arrest for more than five months, Zambian prosecutors dropped all charges against him.

8.   But federal prosecutors have already dropped tantalizing hints that the behavior may have started two decades earlier, with her mother.

9.   But James Nichols was soon freed, and in Detroit on Thursday federal prosecutors dropped bomb-making-conspiracy charges that had been brought against him.

10.   But Rosenthal appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court, and prosecutors later dropped the pending drug charges.