Mohamed Abdel-Maboud was among those who survived; he only came to the academy for two pretrial court sessions.
In fact, he said almost nothing in two pretrial interviews with Thomas and Rodgers, who typed up the transcript.
Wal-Mart's lawyers filed twenty pretrial motions and responses, and spent, by OSHA's calculations, two million dollars fighting the citation.
Throughout the four pretrial hearings, lawyers for the defendants, who have asserted their innocence, have not been permitted to present their side of the story to the presiding judge.
Mr. Mladic has so far attended four pretrial hearings, where he has swung from shouting at the judges to trying to charm them, to begging for sympathy because of his age, to protesting about being handcuffed — all infuriating to people in the courtroom who said the former general had destroyed so many lives without hesitation.
Now 21, Campbell finds himself at the center of a spiraling criminal justice nightmare: The suspect is among a group of seven pretrial inmates a judge ordered released on Friday due to a massive failure to provide attorneys for poor suspects.
Ms. Ortega has made about 90 court appearances since her arrest, and her case has been the subject of two lengthy pretrial hearings.
In December, in a move widely viewed as retaliation for her reporting on the regime, she was arrested and given two months pretrial detention for allegedly inciting a colleague to attempt suicide.
Although the government's loss on significant counts will undoubtedly test the Obama administration's resolve on using civilian courts, Judge Kaplan issued two major pretrial rulings that allowed Mr. Ghailani's prosecution to go forward and could ease the way for future detainees, like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed 9/11 mastermind, to be tried in federal court.
"New Orleans is the tip of the iceberg," says Pamela Metzger, a Tulane Law professor, who filed the motion to free Campbell and the six other pretrial inmates.
