Sentence examples for pretrial proceeding from inspiring English sources

The relationship between the operatives and "supporters in Jamaica was critical to the ability to traffic in marijuana here," Jocelyn Strauber, a federal prosecutor, said in a pretrial proceeding in Mr. Reid's case.

On an overcast day last October, Ms. Pearson could be found in Room 625 of Bronx Supreme Court, awaiting a pretrial proceeding for Rene Bonilla, the man accused of killing her 10-year-old daughter, Naiesha.

Pretrial proceedings in the case stretched on for years.

His lawyers argued for a closed proceeding because pretrial publicity could prejudice jurors.

That was sufficient to permit Mr. Iqbal's lawyers to proceed to pretrial discovery to establish the facts, Judge Jon O. Newman wrote for the appeals court.

The Federal District Court in Seattle, in a ruling affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, has allowed the case to proceed to the pretrial discovery phase.

Judge Kram's ruling allows shareholders and bondholders to proceed to the pretrial phase in which they can demand evidence and depositions from Time Warner and its current and former employees, putting them in a better position to negotiate a settlement.

Though designed to increase efficiency by consolidating pretrial discovery from multiple cases into a single proceeding, some trial lawyers feel that the MDL process has become just another layer of sclerotic bureaucracy in the judiciary, one that uproots and centralizes litigation before the first case is even tried.

That is followed in coming months by a proceeding known as an Article 32 pretrial hearing, where prosecutors will present their evidence for convening a formal court-martial, leading to a recommendation from the presiding officer to higher command authority as to whether to hold a court-martial.

A9 Pretrial Ruling in Tripp Case A Maryland judge ruled that the prosecution of Linda R. Tripp on wiretapping charges could proceed, but the judge also disallowed important testimony concerning Monica S. Lewinsky's assertions about the date of a specific conversation that Ms. Tripp secretly tape-recorded.

The pretrial inquests, known as Article 32 hearings, are similar to both a civilian preliminary hearing and a civilian grand jury proceeding.