I filed charges against a man who duped me out of around $10000, purporting to be an Private Detective. I paid him this money in stages as an hourly rate for 'detective work' he did for my business regarding a fraudulent WCB claim registered against our business.
Months later, when I won the WCB case against the employee, I discovered the man was a fraud, and wasn't a detective.
I filed charges against him in an attempt to get my money back. It went to Grand Jury and he was indicted. We wrote off the money in last years accounting.
Later we found the man was in jail for arson, or something equally stupid, and was likely to be there for several years.
Now the case is about to go to trial, and I simply can't see the point any more. The man is in jail, at most he would get a sentence to run concurrent with his existing one. All this will do is add a couple of years to him getting parole.
I simply don't care any more about this, and if I'd realised this at the beginning, I wouldn't have bothered. I really don't want to see the guy in prison any longer, he has two kids to raise, and I'm not going to get ANYTHING out of this. I don't want to go to court, I think its a complete waste of court time. I simply don't like dealing with the stress either. How can I get this dismissed?

