Charges Dismissed in AZ Smuggling Case
"A judge dismissed charges Tuesday against two Mexican men
in the first trial of illegal immigrants charged as conspirators under a new Arizona smuggling law. The law targets immigrant smugglers, but a prosecutor has said that those who paid to be sneaked into the country also can be charged as conspirators to the crime," the AP reports. "After two days of testimony, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Thomas O'Toole dismissed charges against the two men, who were among the first 48 immigrants to be charged as conspirators under the 10-month-old law. O'Toole said prosecutors didn't provide substantial evidence of a conspiracy, and likened the situation to people traveling independently of each other on a commercial airplane."
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