Thanks, I haven’t been keeping that close an eye on it. Just saw the wording and got confused.
That’s what my first thought was, but I did some digging and it looks like in legal terms dismissed can mean:
- dismissed by the overseeing authority, as in, the judge throws it out.
or
- the defendant has been “dismissed” from charges/dismissed from the filing.
I hadn’t heard the second version used before, but that would likely be why the lawyer phrased it that way.