Judges have the discretion to hold defendants in jail without setting bail.
Such admissions are a way to hold defendants accountable, as well as being an important part of the public record, Mr. Bharara says.
The government still wants the courts to be allowed to hold defendants incommunicado for as long as four months in complex cases.
On Friday, however, she was all smiles as her husband walked free after a brief proceeding in which he and Mr. Ofitserov sat in the glass-enclosed cage often used to hold defendants in Russian criminal proceedings.
Unlike state and federal prison systems, where inmates are often sent to far-flung facilities to serve lengthy sentences, county jails are designed to hold defendants as they await their trials.
Those include 9 detention centers that hold defendants awaiting trial, 21 high-security penitentiaries and a supersecure prison in Florence, Colo., where several convicted terrorists are already locked up.
At the same time, more liberal members of the Legislature chafed at proposals that judges be given permission to hold defendants on the basis of subjective standards like "dangerousness" or "risk". Neither of those factors were a part of the framework worked out on Friday, according to two people close to the negotiations who requested anonymity because the deal had not been finalized.
A second important criticism of post war trials is that they hold defendants responsible for acts that were not prohibited at the time they were committed.
But developers working for court authorities want to remove three of the protected trees - including a mature horse chestnut - to make way for a new custody suite to hold defendants.
Partisan maneuvering must not derail an opportunity to hold defendants accountable, to prevent future violence, and to keep members of these communities safe and, if they suffer horrible trauma, provide them with the life-saving and transformative services they deserve.
