Word: pre-trial
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Perhaps the gloom is appropriate. Justice is practiced wholesale here, with five to ten cases pushed through hour after hour, day after day. This room on the 13th floor of Middlesex Country Courthouse witness the administrative grinding of the American judicial system; arraignments first and then pre-trial conferences in the late morning and afternoon...
...bulk of the day is spent non on oratory, not on discussion of the facts, not on objections and overrulings, but scheduling. Every time a case is sent to pre-trial conference, or a witness is missing, or the prosecution isn't ready, or he defendant had to go to the hospital, the judge and two lawyers open their calendars and set date, usually three or four weeks away...
...lawyer will be out of town in late May, the other will be out of town in the first half of June. The witness is leaving the country. There are no pre-trial conference openings on that date. The discussion goes...
...pre-trial date has been set for two Cornell University lacrosse players who allegedly assaulted a Harvard student two weeks...
...judges threw out North's conviction for destroying government records, ruling that Gesell had made two mistakes in instructing the jury; both were highly technical. More broadly, the panel found that Gesell should have held more extensive pre-trial hearings to determine whether the evidence to be used during the actual trial had been "tainted" by witnesses' recollections of North's congressional testimony, for which he had been granted immunity. Gesell was ordered to conduct hearings "witness-by-witness" and "if necessary, line-by-line" that, said the majority, might "consume substantial amounts of time, personnel and money, only...