That may help to explain why the prosecutors chose not to bring an indictment.
In such cases, the prosecutor may choose to charge the same acts as incest.
If the victim is uncooperative during investigation, the prosecutor may choose not to pursue the case.
He said prosecutors had chosen "to view the facts in the worst possible light."
The prosecutors, seeking to simplify their case, chose not to present evidence to support those accusations.
By and large, federal prosecutors can pick and choose which cases they take.
And the prosecutors have chosen to seek his testimony first.
The Mahans may be retried if prosecutors choose to do so.
A prosecutor may choose to pursue the same or different charges against the person a police officer has arrested.
However, if prosecutors choose to bring charges based on these events, they will have to confront certain factual issues.