His lawyer, William P. Keane, said after a pretrial hearing Friday that Graham planned to take his case to trial, scheduled to start May 19.
Consequently, some registry entries still contain pretrial values for the number of planned study participants rather than updated enrollment information, despite the completion of trial enrollment and follow-up.
At a hearing in Manhattan federal court yesterday, Ms. Stewart's lawyer, Robert G. Morvillo, said he planned to asked Judge John E. Sprizzo to force the S.E.C. to allow pretrial questioning of Ms. Slansky and Ms. Glotzer.
At that hearing, according to people on the Andersen team, the lawyers are planning to waive all pretrial motions and ask for an expedited trial date.
And Ms. Peterson told a college classmate before Ms. Savio's death that Mr. Peterson had planned on killing Ms. Savio "and making it look like an accident and said he can get away with it, too, because he was a Bolingbrook cop," said John Connor, assistant state's attorney in Will County, according to a transcript of arguments during a pretrial hearing in 2010.
It used to be that you would have a pretrial in a Magistrate's Court, without a jury present, in which defence lawyers could scare accusers out of taking things further by bringing up the things Yvonne mentioned – "you're a slag, you wanted it, you planned it all along", offers Yazigi, as examples.
It used to be that you would have a pretrial in a court that has minor civil and criminal jurisdiction, without a jury present, in which defense lawyers could scare accusers out of taking things further by bringing up the things Traynor mentioned—"you're a whore, you wanted it, you planned it all along," offers Yazigi, as examples.
Porter's attorneys say their client will assert his right not to testify in Goodson's case at a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, at which prosecutors plan to propose that Porter be given immunity to speak without his testimony being used against him at his retrial.
Their case is still in pretrial proceedings and the judge overseeing the case plans to retire next month.
A pretrial hearing also would provide prosecutors with a preview of how Mark O'Mara, Mr. Zimmerman's lawyer, plans to present his case.
