Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges

Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure

Georgia prosecutors are facing what one expert called probably the highest-profile failure of using conspiracy charges to indict a protest movement" in US history, after a two-year attempt to prosecute a criminal conspiracy in connection with opposition to the police training center known as Cop City.

Fulton county superior court Judge Kevin Farmer announced his decision to dismiss charges against the case's 61 defendants during hearings this week on a handful of defense attorney motions.