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build a case

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build a case (against someone) and gather a case (against someone)
to put together the evidence needed to make a legal or disciplinary case against someone. The police easily built a case against the drunken driver. As soon as we gather the case against her, we can obtain a warrant to arrest her.
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That means the statements could not be used at trial, forcing prosecutors to build a case based on other evidence from a crime scene that was then weeks old.
The evidence was used by Cuba's government to build a case that Martha Beatriz Roque allegedly took cash brought to the island by the former top U.
For years Israeli police tried to build a case against a top crime kingpin most recently suspected in a gruesome beach murder, but it is a US extradition request that will probably put him behind bars.
 
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