Word: pre-trial
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...grants pending defense motions to dismiss the charges, the defense may take still another couple of years to present its case in the marathon trial. "Thus," speculated the New York Times last week, "the life expectancy of the judge, who in this case has already spent five years in pre-trial and trial proceedings, becomes another complicating factor in antitrust jurisprudence...
Finally, a pre-trial hearing on accident disputes would not only clear up the present court glut but also let a judge, instead of a chronically munificent jury, award damages...
...Chambers for libel. The case vanished briefly behind the closed doors of the New York grand jury, where Chambers appeared and seven times denied that any actual espionage had been involved; behind the closed doors of Hiss's lawyer's office in Baltimore, where Chambers began making pre-trial depositions in the libel suit...
...question before the U.S. Supreme Court was: When do newspaper reports of a crime prejudice a defendant's right to a fair trial? The question was an old one in Maryland: Baltimore's municipal judges had a ten-year-old regulation that forbade publication of pre-trial confessions in local crime cases. Three Baltimore radio stations had ignored that regulation, and in 1949 had been convicted and fined for contempt of court. They had won a reversal in the court of appeals of Maryland (TIME, June...
...Since pre-trial argument began in Manhattan's federal courthouse last January, court stenographers had typed up almost 20,000 pages of testimony. The defense had called 35 witnesses in 109 trial days, the Government 15 in 37 days; between them, opposing counsel had put 761 different exhibits into evidence. Judge Harold Medina had jailed five of the defendants and formally cited one defense lawyer for contempt (his punishment will be set after the verdict is returned...