Overview
- The Broward County State Attorney’s Office dismissed four counts: witness tampering, directing the activities of a criminal gang, criminal solicitation to commit murder, and conspiracy to tamper with a witness in a capital case.
- The dismissal was filed a day before jury selection was set to begin in the separate tampering trial.
- Melly remains jailed and still faces a double-murder retrial scheduled for January 2027, with potential death-penalty exposure if convicted.
- His attorneys, Drew Findling and Carey Haughwout, said the charges were baseless, noting he spent about 652 days in custody while the tampering case was pending and roughly 2,202 days total since his arrest.
- Prosecutors had alleged he worked with co-defendant Cortlen Henry and another inmate to dissuade an ex-girlfriend from testifying; Henry earlier took a plea deal and received a 10-year sentence on tampering and accessory charges.