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Judge dismisses case against Chandra Levy suspect
[USATODAY] A judge dismissed the indictment Thursday against the man charged with killing intern Chandra Levy, after prosecutors asked to drop the case that drew national interest and embroiled a politician in scandal.Ingmar Guandique, who lived in Washington, was found guilty in 2010 of killing Levy, who disappeared in 2001. Guandique, who has protested his innocence from the start, was granted a new trial last year based on questions about the credibility of a jailhouse informant. Prosecutors now say he will be deported. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ordered the case dismissed, based on the request from U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips. "Mr. Guandique has maintained since the beginning, when he passed an FBI administered lie detector test, that he did not kill Ms. Levy. This dismissal vindicates Mr. Guandique," Lauren Hankins, general counsel for the public defender service that represented him, said in a statement. "Finally, the government has had to concede the flaws in its ill-gotten conviction." The disappearance of Levy, 24, of Modesto, Calif., while she worked as an intern at the federal Bureau of Prisons, made headlines after she was linked romantically to then-Rep. Gary My wife has no thumbsCondit ... lover but not murderer of Chandra Levy ... , D-Calif. Condit was later ruled out as a suspect. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-29 |
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