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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Federal prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss their potential death penalty case against convicted serial killer John E. Robinson Sr. now that the U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated his death sentence in Kansas.
Robinson was charged in Kansas and Missouri after authorities found the bodies of five victims stuffed into barrels on property he owned and in a storage facility he rented. He pleaded guilty to five killings in Missouri and was convicted of three in Johnson County, Kansas.
He was sentenced to death for two of the Kansas killings, but the Kansas Supreme Court later ruled the state's death penalty unconstitutional.
Federal prosecutors then stepped in, indicting Robinson on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death, which can be punishable by death, because one of the victims was believed to have been lured across state lines from Michigan.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Kansas Supreme Court ruling and reinstated the death sentences against Robinson and other death row inmates in the state.
"The defendant's death penalty sentence in the state of Kansas has been reinstated, which vindicates the government's interest in federal prosecution at this time," Assistant U.S. Attorney John Cowles wrote in a motion filed Friday to dismiss the federal charge.
The motion asks that the case be dismissed without prejudice, which means it can be refiled. Robinson's attorneys said they would oppose that request, to preserve the grounds for a possible appeal.
Robinson's convictions and death sentence in Kansas already are under appeal.
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