In England, Swansea Crown Court judge Geraint Walters wanted to know why prosecutors had dropped charges against photographer Dimitris Legakis on the eve of his trial. Legakis was arrested for taking photos near a crime scene and charged with assaulting an emergency services worker, obstructing or resisting a police officer and using threatening or abusive words or behavior. A prosecutor said the charges were dropped because the officer’s original statement differed from his later statement. But Walters said that after reading the report, he believed Legakis was arrested because a police officer “took offense” to him taking photos. He said he believed prosecutors knew from the beginning that there was “no evidentiary basis” to charge Legakis.
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