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High-profile reflecting pool prosecution of Olympian shot down for good as 'meritless'

The Justice Department's prosecution of former Olympic canoeist David Hearn came to a permanent end on Thursday, with a dismissal that bars Donald Trump's administration from pursuing the case against him again.Federal prosecutors moved in July to drop the felony charges accusing Hearn of damaging t...

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