• Kellamity@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    In the UK, you can’t decide whether to ‘press charges’ or not, the decision is the CPS’s.

    But in practice, saying you aren’t interested in pursuing a conviction often ends it, because:

    1 - the prosecution must be ‘in the public good’ which is undermined if the victim isn’t interested

    2 - a lot of the time the testimony and cooperation of the victim is key to the prosecution case

    3 - the system is horribly underfunded so if they can justify dropping it they will