article_snippet.sent: Ventura County prosecutors dropped Ventura County prosecutors against a woman accused of killing her Olympic medalist husband then turned around and filed the charges on Friday.
article_snippet.sent: The move is an apparent attempt to delay the trial of 57-year-old Jane Laut in the 2009 killing of Dave Laut, the Ventura County Star reports.
article_snippet.sent: It came after a judge denied for the third time a request to delay trial.
article_snippet.sent: Laut had been free on bail but was rearrested in the court hallway after the hearing.
article_snippet.sent: the charges were dropped and then refiled immediately on Friday in a Ventura County courtroom .
article_snippet.sent: Laut's trial had already been postponed multiple times.
article_snippet.sent: When the judge denied a motion from the prosecution that Laut's trial be continued until June, prosecutors chose to drop the charges and refile.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy District Attorney Rameen Minoui said Deputy District Attorney Rameen Minoui witnesses would not be available for trial in the current window, People reported, and Deputy District Attorney Rameen Minoui accused the defense of withholding discovery.
highlights_snippet.sent: When a California judge threw out the prosecution's request again delay the several times postponed trial, they dropped the charges and refiled .
  