If a felony is reported to police can they drop it with no investigation?
If a felony crime (non-violent) that specifies perpetrator must have wilful intent has been reported and police receive substantial evidence from victim who knows the perpetrator and knows the law and specifies exactly how the law was broken and provides evidence surrounding intent (that is that the suspect, when confronted, lied and blamed someone else who then proved with absolute documentation they did not do it but facts prove perpetrator who lied did), can the police simply drop the issue and say there is 'nothing to charge' based solely upon police personal interpretation of suspect's intent without ever even asking the suspect a single thing? Or getting the suspect's side of the story at all?
Conversely, in an entirely different crime, if a crime is suspected and wilful intent is required to prove there was a crime can the police bring charges, even arrest a suspect without ever having asked the suspect for their side of the story at all?
In other words, must a police investigation of 'intent' include questioning both sides of the alleged crime? Or is that just left up to the court to decide? And if that is the case, must both crimes have charges brought
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