table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNHWGgQCDt6prIXgQjxPkKtojB82qwamp;url=http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19922892bContra Costa judge dismisses state charges against officers in CNET scandal to b/b/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fSan Jose Mercury News/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1By Malaika Fraley bWALNUT CREEK/b -- A Contra Costa County judge Wednesday dismissed all state bcriminal/b charges against four former officers tied to a vice squad corruption scandal in an effort to preserve a concurrent federal prosecution, b/b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dmtVeglaulqQE3Mamp;ned=usnobrband morenbsp;raquo;/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
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