pretrial [
'pri:'traiәl]
a. 审判前的
n. 审前预备会议
[法] 预审, 审前预备会议
pretrial[ noun ]
(law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases
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- The traders' allegations were made in pretrial motions filed by the three men, the Chicago Tribune reported in today's editions.
- Judge Carter agreed yesterday that the government could use the pretrial fact-finding process, known as discovery, to determine the total that could be forfeited by the five defendants.
- After the two didn't attend a pretrial hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie ordered arrest warrants.
- In grand jury testimony that has been made public as a result of pretrial motions, several government witnesses described Jurczek, a 68-year-old Hungarian immigrant, as a man bent on leading the world after the collapse.
- Under civil law rules for pretrial fact-gathering, Drexel theoretically now has the right to see the SEC's evidence.
- Gesell said the pretrial hearings would last at least through May.
- A federal appeals court said pretrial release is required _ even for a defendant who otherwise could be held in custody _ if a pretrial detention hearing is not held the first time that person appears before a judge or magistrate.
- A federal appeals court said pretrial release is required _ even for a defendant who otherwise could be held in custody _ if a pretrial detention hearing is not held the first time that person appears before a judge or magistrate.
- That's crucial to our defense." The case was going to court after a lengthy pretrial period during which defense lawyers filed many motions to overturn the indictment or to remove one or both of the Helmsleys from the case.
- At a pretrial hearing, Judge Thomas Curran ruled inadmissible an affidavit that Kritzik had given a federal agent before he died.
- Both Mrs. Marcos and Khashoggi attended Friday's pretrial hearing before U.S. District Judge John Keenan.
- He expressed confidence that the pretrial factfinding phase of the proceedings won't produce evidence that the clause was voided.
- Albanese denied a defense motion to declare a mistrial based on pretrial news reports, particularly use of phrases such as "child pornography." He also denied a motion to limit potential jurors to Cincinnati residents.
- The defense argued in pretrial motions that blood test evidence being used by Richwalsky should be excluded as illegally obtained, but Judge Charles Satterwhite rejected that contention.
- In a pretrial motion to bar references to the ACLU, Ms. Whicher cited Vice President George Bush's acerbic comments about Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis's ACLU membership.
- Complex cases, such as antitrust suits and many business disputes, would receive intense supervision by federal judges to keep pretrial proceedings moving.
- Yazzie did not set a trial date, but tentatively scheduled a pretrial hearing for Jan. 29.
- He entered into a pretrial agreement in which he volunteered to submit to "unlimited debriefings" and polygraph examinations about his spy activities.
- New York hotel owner Leona Helmsley failed today in a Supreme Court attempt to win a special pretrial hearing in her prosecution on charges of federal income tax evasion.
- The decision, which can't be appealed, propels the parties into the pretrial fact-finding, or discovery, stage of the case.
- The state court threw out most of the ex-governor's claims in pretrial proceedings, but said a jury trial was needed regarding the Farrell column.
- The state court also ordered a pretrial hearing to determine whether statements Satter made to police after his April 2 remarks to Berg _ all after receiving so-called Miranda warnings _ are admissible as evidence.
- When the DNA tests in this case were first made public during pretrial hearings, defense lawyers for the three teen-agers said the results indicated an unidentified person had had sex with the jogger.
- Two dozen manufacturers were girding for years of pretrial skirmishing.
- Flip Lorenzoni, chief deputy marshal of New York's southern district, said the two pretrial detention centers near New York City are full.
- At a pretrial hearing Wednesday, defense attorney Francis D. Carter said he would argue that his client led the hijacking on orders from commanders of the Amal militia, a Shiite Moslem faction in Lebanon.
- Attorneys for Drexel and other defendants had hoped to begin compelling pretrial testimony from important witnesses as quickly as possible.
- The panel, chosen in Pittsburgh because of pretrial publicity here, also had convicted him of kidnapping and rape in the imprisonment of four other women in his Philadelphia row house.
- The judge issued the orders at a pretrial status conference held here, the first time the combatants' more than 50 lawyers have met in court.
- "I am ecstatic about finally going to trial in this case," he said Wednesday. "And I hope we can move the trial along a little more efficiently than we've attended to the pretrial affairs." Ramirez' notoriety will be a key subject of inquiry.