Casey Seiler in Capitol Confidential reports a judge formally dropped charges against 88 protestors arrested over the course of Occupy Albany’s two-month downtown encampment last fall. City Court Judge Thomas K. Keefe dismissed more than 100 charges that were technically still pending against the protesters after District Attorney David Soares announced that he would not prosecute protesters arrested for nonviolent offenses that did not involve property damage. Read the full story in Capitol Confidential.