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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE 
NASHVILLE DIVISION 
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
 
v. 
 
ALISON WILLIAMS 
) 
) 
) NO. 3:22-cr-00307-2 
) 
) JUDGE RICHARDSON 
) 
 
ORDER 
 
The Government has filed a Motion to Dismiss (Doc. No. 85), wherein the Government 
requests that the Court dismiss with prejudice the Indictment (Doc. No. 1) with respect to Defendant 
Alison Williams (“Williams”). 1 The Indictment contains three counts. Willaims’s co -defendant 
(Tyler Verge) is charged only in Counts One and Two, and Williams is charged only in Count Three; 
Count Three charges Williams with making a false statement in the acquisition of a firearm, in 
violation of 18 U.S.C. § § 922(a)(6) and 924(a)(2). In support of the request for dismissal of the 
Indictment with respect to Williams (i.e., the dismissal of the Count Three), the Government writes: 
The United States has considered the facts of this case and consulted with the 
United States Probation Office regarding the defendant’s performance while on 
supervision. Based upon those reviews, and consistent with the provisions of the 
parties’ pretrial diversion agreement at D.E. 76, the United States has determined that 
the Indictment should be dismissed. Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(a). 
 
(Doc. No. 85 at 1). 
 
The Court acknowledges the Government’s prerogative, under basic principles of federal 
governance, to decide whether and when to cease an ongoing prosecution. Moreover, justice would 
be (to say the least) well served by dismissal of charges where (as here) the applicable circumstances 
show that the defendant has earned dismissal of the charges under the parties’ pretrial diversion 
agreement Furthermore, Williams has not voiced opposition to the Motion to Dismiss and is (to say 
the least) exceedingly unlikely to do so. Accordingly, the Motion (Doc. No. 85) is well taken and is 
 
1 The Motion to Dismiss does not contemplate dismissal of the Indictment of Willaims’s co-defendant, Tyler Verge, who 
was charged (by himself) in Counts 1 and 2, pled guilty to those counts, and has already been sentenced on those counts. PageID #: <pageID>
hereby GRANTED. Accordingly, the Indictment in this case (Doc. No. 1) is DISMISSED with 
prejudice as to Williams. 
All charges against both Defendants now having been resolved in full, the Clerk is directed 
to close the file. 
IT IS SO ORDERED. 
 
 
 
ELI RICHARDSON 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE PageID #: <pageID>

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