In many respects, though, the most contentious pretrial issue involved discovery — that is, the government's obligation to turn over its evidence to the defense.
Most were pretrial detainees who had not even had their day in court people accused of crimes but convicted of nothing.
The decision meant that most of the pretrial motions that had been scheduled for argument this week would be delayed for at least a month.
Like Browder, who spent thirty-six months in pretrial detention, most of the juveniles who end up in pretrial limbo are young men, sometimes with families to support.
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In the United States, the use of commercial bail bonds is rising, and they became the most popular form of pretrial release in 1998.
But the facility presents an extreme microcosm of two of the most pressing national prison problems: pretrial detention and overcrowding.
Dmitry V. Agranovsky, a lawyer who is representing Mr. Belousov and a second defendant, Vladimir Akimenkov, said in a telephone interview that the lengthy pretrial detention of most of the defendants was proof of the political nature of the charges.
Army correctional facilities have forced shaves on prisoners six times since 2005, most recently in June on a pretrial prisoner at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash.
And — the persistent core problem — most detainees were held in prolonged pretrial detention, often for minor crimes or for things like commercial debt, witchcraft and werewolfery.
