Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “No Free Passes for Cronies Act”.
No Free Passes for Cronies Act
A BILL
To amend the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide for when the government may move the court to dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Motion by the government to dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint
Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is amended to read as follows:
“(a) Motion by the government—The government may move the court to dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint. The court may, upon consideration of the interests of justice, grant or deny such motion, except that the court may not grant such a motion to dismiss the prosecution during trial without the defendant’s consent.”