Word: pre-trial
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...teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally stressing legal theory, law schools fail to offer students a sense of everyday practice. To remedy this, he instituted an advanced criminal law seminar that required the twelve students to take an actual prosecution and build their own defense cases from pre-trial procedure to courtroom maneuvers. This year he is focusing on defenses for the criminally insane. Says Amsterdam: "Law students can learn more from knowing how to ask good questions than from studying appellate briefs. To be able to make split-second decisions, they have to feel the law in their bones...
...Magistrate Peter M. Princi Wednesday granted a motion from the U.S. District Attorney's office in Boston to postpone the pre-trial hearing of Spiro M. Pavlovich II scheduled for Wednesday...
...pre-trial work in the Halperin case is almost complete, with only Kissinger's deposition yet to be taken, he said...
Those inmates judged "criminally-insane," who are under commitment or in for pre-trial observation, were moved across the road last December into a new maximum-security complex that has toilets in the cells and is surrounded by a double barbed-wire steel fence instead of brick walls. Those judged as SDPs remain behind in the old prison, one part of which is so dirty that a federal district court judge last September challenged on confinement in Bridgewater on the grounds that it was cruel and unusual punisment...
...current state hospital population comprises more than insane perpetrators of violent crimes. Some state hospital inmates are alleged criminals who have been sent to Bridgewater for pre-trial observation by the prison's medical staff." With the current backing of trial cases, pre-trial observation often lasts for months, even years. Other inmates wind up at Bridgewater because their lawyers have tried to obtain shorter sentences for them by having them plead insanity Because most "patients" are given drugs--often against their will--the ploy can easily backfire, burdening taxpayers, destroying the minds and lives of human beings...