Suspects can also be removed from the list if the federal case against them is dismissed or if they are no longer believed to meet the "Top Ten" requirements.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Under standard protocol, the Justice Department is supposed to get formal approval from the U.K. before meeting with British citizens in the U.K. In this case, the Justice Department requested to meet with Mr. Hayes, laying out the planned criminal case against him.

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"We became involved because we thought that the charges filed originally by the police department did not meet with the facts of the case, " said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of New York-based LatinoJustice PRLDEF: specifically, that the youths were not charged with murder.

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The council said Havens' case did not meet the government's "very special circumstances" criteria.

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