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It is usually used in the context of a court proceeding, and can be used as either an adjective or a noun. Example sentence: The defendant's attorneys requested a pretrial hearing to address their motion to dismiss.
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pretrial
noun
A preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial.
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Senior figures, including Michaloliakos, an ardent admirer of Hitler and known to his sympathisers as the Führer, and who is accused of masterminding the criminal operation, have spent 18 months in pretrial custody.
Nikolaos Michaloliakos, Golden Dawn's leader, who is under house arrest after serving the maximum allowable 18 months in pretrial detention, stayed away from the hearing in April and did so again on Friday.
"In the history of New Jersey, no woman pretrial detainee or prisoner has ever been treated as she was, continuously confined in a men's prison, under 24-hour surveillance, without adequate medical attention and exercise," he says.
As well as undergoing harsh interrogation techniques such as stress positions, sleep deprivation and extremes of temperature, Mr Mohammed was also subjected to "waterboarding", or simulated drowning, regarded by many (though not by the administration) as torture.At a pretrial hearing in June, Mr Mohammed told the court that he had wished for martyrdom "for a long time".
The prosecutor's equally public application now to the ICC's pretrial chamber for an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president—he could have quietly applied for a sealed warrant, as he has done before was made with the same intent.
Under the inquisitorial procedure, the pretrial hearing for bringing a possible indictment is usually under the control of a judge whose responsibilities include the investigation of all aspects of the case, whether favourable or unfavourable to either the prosecution or defense.
U.S. Department of Agriculture), and that a claim against police officers that they used excessive force during pretrial detention may be established by showing that the force used was "objectively unreasonable" even if the officers were not subjectively aware that it was unreasonable (Kingsley v. Hendrickson).
In a pretrial motion, Lochner asked for dismissal on the grounds that the grand jury had not properly stated the charges and that, even if the charges were true, what he had done did not constitute a crime.
House arrest can be useful as a form of pretrial confinement for defendants who appear to be inappropriate candidates for being released on their own recognizance or who are unable to post bond.
The entire dossier of the pretrial proceedings is made available to the defense.
Over the long pretrial period, Kelly continued to release albums that, if anything, grew even more sexually explicit, though they also included songs of uplift.
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