The Douglas County District Attorney dropped charges Thursday against a man whom Carson City prosecutors had said tried to hire a jail inmate to kill Justice of the Peace John Tatro.
Ty Robben, a former Nevada Taxation Department employee, was being held on the charge with a $50,000 bail. Mark Jackson, the district attorney brought on as special prosecutor after Carson City's DA was removed from the case, said he reviewed the evidence before him and made the decision.
In a statement Jackson said: "Based on a full and complete review of all the evidence and the existing constitutional, statutory and case law, I filed a notice of dismissal today in the Carson Township Justice Court."
Last month Jackson dropped charges of stalking, libel and two counts of intimidation of Tatro and his family, saying there wasn't enough evidence that Robben was stalking him and his family, and that Nevada's libel law was vague.