The worst problem comes in the pre-trial phase known as discovery.Once a suit is filed and the defendant answers, the parties to a suit have an extensive right to demand information from each other.
'The right to counsel, without which the right to defend oneself is of no practical meaning, does not exist during the first phase of the criminal process in those systems in which the pre-trial phase is carried out in secret without the presence of defense counsel.
It will first set out the context in which the Milošević proceedings began, in order to provide a detailed analysis of the pre-trial phase and trial phase, before describing the final stages of the proceedings.
Notwithstanding the scope and size of the case, the pre-trial phase, which lasted only 7 months, was relatively brief, and the trial commenced on 12 February 2002 (Prosecutor v. Milošević 4 February 2002).
At this point, the Presiding Judge, Richard May, who had steered the trial through the pre-trial phase and through most of the Prosecution's case-in-chief, resigned effectively on 1 June 2004, due to ill health, and Judge Patrick Robinson took over as the Presiding Judge of the trial.
The case is still in the pre-trial phase -- nearly four years since the five accused co-conspirators were arraigned.
Twelve years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 9/11 military commission case against the five alleged masterminds of the attack is only in the pre-trial phase; the case may not get to trial until 2015.
His primary concern is that in the one-judge system, the judge may have already come to conclusions about the case in the pre-trial phase prior to hearing all the evidence in the trial.
When evaluating a complex intervention, the pre-trial phase may follow a different but analogous path.
The pre-trial phase was characterised by the initial preparation and training.
We reviewed our experiences and identified key ethical and logistic issues encountered during the pre-trial phase of a recently implemented RCT.
