Charges against President Donald Trump and others have been dropped by the State of Georgia.
The US leader and others had been accused of election interference in the 2020 election in the Southern state.
The prosecutor who recently took over the case, Pete Skandalakis, has said in a court filing that he has decided not to pursue the matter further.
Charges against 14 others, including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, were also dropped.
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Mr Skandalakis wrote in his court filing that the behaviour alleged in the charges was: "Conceived in Washington, DC, not the State of Georgia. The federal government is the appropriate venue for this prosecution, not the State of Georgia".
He explained the decision was made "to serve the interests of justice and promote judicial finality."
"As a former elected official who ran as both a Democrat and a Republican and now is the Executive Director of a non-partisan agency, this decision is not guided by a desire to advance an agenda but is based on my beliefs and understanding of the law," Mr Skandalakis added.
Following his submission, the case was dismissed in full by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
The State of Georgia has dropped its charges against President Donald Trump
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Mr Trump's lawyer in the case, Steve Sadow, celebrated the end of what he characterised as "political persecution" of the President.
"This case should never have been brought. A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this lawfare," he said.
The case was initially brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in 2023.
However, she was disqualified last year from prosecuting it last year.
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The Georgia case resulted in the infamous mug shot of Mr Trump being taken in Fulton County Jail
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Her removal from the case came after an appeals court in the state capital, Atlanta, ruled that a romantic relationship she had shared with the special prosecutor she had assigned to the case, Nathan Wade, had created "a significant appearance of impropriety."
The charges pertained to accusations of a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence Mr Trump's narrow loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.
Ms Willis launched her investigation into the case in February 2021 after audio of President Trump, in the dying embers of his first term in office, speaking to Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was shared by the press.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes," Mr Trump could be heard saying in the January 2021 call.
The case originated with a 2021 phone call between President Trump Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State
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That number was the margin by which he lost the state to Mr Biden.
The Georgia election interference case was once billed as the most serious of Mr Trump's four criminal indictments he faced before returning to the White House last year.
For his other charges, the US President had been granted a broad immunity by the Supreme Court against federal prosecution for what it described as official acts.
However, the ruling did not cover state-level charges - meaning he would not be able to pardon himself.
As part of the proceedings of the case, Mr Trump was taken to Fulton County Jail by prosecutors.
It was here that the now infamous mugshot of the former and future President was taken, where it quickly became a rallying cry for his supporters.
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