“A magistrate judge upbraided federal prosecutors Wednesday as he granted their request to dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, calling the government’s abrupt about-face ‘a worrisome misstep’ in a case that has stoked a political firestorm,” the Washington Post reports.
Said U.
S. Magistrate Judge Andre Espinosa: “An arrest of a public figure is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action. It should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate investigation of credible evidence.”