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Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to drop vindictive prosecution hearing, dismiss criminal case

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Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge in Nashville to dismiss his criminal case entirely, arguing in a new filing Thursday that the Trump administration failed to provide the necessary discovery or to allow key witness testimony during a two-day evidentiary hearing next week. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw scheduled the upcoming hearing to weigh Abrego Garcia's request that his criminal case be dismissed on the grounds of "vindictive" and selective prosecution by the government. Crenshaw ruled earlier this month that Abrego Garcia had established a "realistic likeli...

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