Jeff Weiner, a former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers who practices in Miami, said an Arthur hearing "is not a mini-trial, but it's a very good preview of the evidence that the state has at this point".
The affidavits provided a preview of the evidence that would be presented at trial of a lawsuit brought by Gregory Ford, 25, who contends that he was molested by Father Shanley from 1983 to 1989 at a church in the nearby town of Newton.
The prosecution previewed several pieces of evidence, including e-mails and instant messages among the defendants and their analysts.
Even at a guilty plea, a less formal hearing would give a preview of the state's evidence.
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Brown's site-specific beginnings are represented by the wall-scaling "Planes" (1968), and her current stint in opera staging is in evidence in a preview of her take on Rameau's "Hippolyte et Aricie".
A "triage," or preview, of computer systems is an effective method of determining whether evidence exists on a computer system without conducting a complete, forensic analysis.
