U.S. Drops Smuggling Charges Against Russian-Born Harvard Medical School Scientist
Prosecutors dropped the charges after a federal judge cleared the way for Kseniia Petrova to obtain evidence supporting her claim that she was being vindictively prosecuted.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same event, U.S. prosecutors dropping smuggling charges against Kseniia Petrova, with no conflicting facts; it reports the motion to drop while Report 1 reports the dropped charges
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