Sentence examples for pretrial decisions from inspiring English sources

Last year, when pretrial decisions went against Mr. Zuma, judges were derided by some A.N.C. loyalists as drunks and counterrevolutionaries.

Judge Rothe-Seeger, willwill preside over the trial in Cass County District Court, seemed to agree in a pretrial decision.

The federal appeals court in Manhattan, in a pretrial decision last June, rejected the claims of immunity raised by the two officials, as well as by other defendants, including the former head of the Bureau of Prisons and the former warden of the Metropolitan Detention Center, where many of the men were held.

This practice "highlights just how shameless Dallas County is about its money-based pretrial decision making process," Rossi added.

Examples of jurisdictions that have seen improved outcomes through risk-based pretrial decision-making include Kentucky, the District of Columbia and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to name but a few.

Of course, judges must use individual discretion and carefully consider local data with pretrial detention decisions.

It may be for instance that individuals who volunteered for the IDC were also better able to effectively present themselves to the judge/bonds-person at the time of pretrial release decision-making, and it was this fact, rather than IDC participation per se that accounted for higher rates of release for IDC participants.

After a decade of pretrial maneuvering, the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, was a victory for the plaintiffs.

The judge also said repeatedly that Mr. Abebe's pretrial testimony about his decision to testify lacked credibility.

The first assistant prosecutor, Fred L. Schwanwede, offered no explanation for the decision during a pretrial hearing for Mr. Garcia, a prominent member of the Dominican-American community in Washington Heights.

Samuel R. Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School, who appeared on behalf of Mr. Quinones and Mr. Rodriguez, told the panel that Judge Rakoff found the issue was ripe for decision because certain pretrial procedures are handled differently in death penalty cases, and may have a critical impact on a defendant's case.