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Apr 15, 2008 2:07 pm US/Eastern

Charges Dropped In Md. Slaying

BALTIMORE (AP) ― Baltimore prosecutors have dropped murder charges in a case that could have included recorded testimony taped before a witness was killed.

Patrick Byers was to go on trial Tuesday in the 2006 shooting death of Larry Haynes.

He still faces federal charges in the slaying of the witness to Haynes' death. Carl Lackl was killed in July in a shooting outside his Rosedale home.

A spokesman for the Baltimore state's attorney's office says prosecutors dropped charges against Byers because they believe he's more likely to be convicted in federal court.

A 2005 law allows prosecutors to introduce taped statements from witnesses who've been killed or are afraid to testify. But prosecutors say there's no guarantee that Lackl's statement would have been allowed if Byers went to trial.

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