Judge won't dismiss charges in Reserve Officer's slaying

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - A federal judge has denied a defense motion to drop several charges in the slaying of a Waynesboro auxiliary police captain.

The Daily Progress reports that U.S. District Judge Glen Conrad denied the motion in an opinion Monday, concluding that the defense's arguments were without merit.

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Earlier this month, defense attorneys for two of the six men accused in the 2014 kidnapping and slaying of Kevin Quick had filed a motion to drop several firearms charges, saying the robbery charges were not acts of violence.

In rejected the motion, Conrad wrote that although certain methods used to kill someone - such as poison - may not use direct physical force, the act of knowingly harming someone else qualifies a crime as a violent one.

The trial is set to begin on Monday.