> "the case is dismissed in the interest of justice" In the US that is possible in only about 12-15 jurisdictions, depending on who's counting. Some explicitly

> "the case is dismissed in the interest of justice" In the US that is possible in only about 12-15 jurisdictions, depending on who's counting. Some explicitly spell out in which cases a judge may do so, others leave that power broadly undefined. I wonder why, having seen that done once, you seem so insistent to extrapolate that judges everywhere and always must have that power.