Word: pre-trial
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...dangers inherent in the "law's delay" have been suggested, ranging from abolition of the jury trial for civil cases to setting up non-judicial procedures for automobile litigation, which composes up to 90 percent of the calendar backlog. One of the most successful of these methods is the pre-trial conference between judge and lawyers. Here the issues are informally exposed, and the judge can familiarize himself with the case. If the conflict cannot be settled out of court, the trial, at least, can then proceed without routine delays...
...legal reforms now underway in the U.S.S.R. The trend in these reforms, he notes, is in the direction of increased rights for the accused and greater leniency in sentences. Any crimes which can be construed as offenses against the State are still harshly punished, however, and there exists a pre-trial hearing in which the accused is without right to counsel. But reforms are being pressed even in these matters, Berman reports...
More suspects were brought in. According to the pre-trial testimony, Sevim Tari had been sent by Moscow from Paris to "guide" secret Communist operations in Turkey. They counted on her good social background to throw off suspicion. But she was so sure of herself that she failed to take adequate precautions. Said one of the cops: "She was a disaster for them, a godsend...
During the 1940 presidential race, Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie was fiercely attacked by the pinko PM, now defunct, in a series of columns signed Paul Revere II. Last week, at the second session of the pre-trial testimony in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against Walter Winchell by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler (TIME, July 13), Columnist Winchell was cornered into a confession. Paul Revere II was Walter Winchell. Since King Features, which syndicates his column, had cut out his diatribes at Willkie, Winchell had put his left hand to work...
...Winchell, who says he likes nothing better than "to step into the ring" to fight, is a hard man to crowd into a corner. He jabs so fast, moves so nimbly, that he seldom presents his numerous opponents with a solid target for counterblows. But last week, at the pre-trial examination in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against him by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler, Winchell's footwork was not quite fancy enough. Witness Winchell, who has broadly implied that the Post and its editor are proCommunist, was drawn into...