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pretrial, n. and a.
A. n. (Stressed ˈpretrial.) [pre- A. 2.] A preliminary hearing before a trial. Also attrib. U.S.
1938E. J. Ellison in Christian Science Monitor 15 June (Weekly Mag.) 3/1 Why not have a special judge to clear out the legal underbrush, and call it a ‘pre-trial’. Ibid. 3/2 Some two weeks before a case is scheduled for trial, the opposing parties appear before a pre-trial judge. 1938Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 18 Aug. 4/1 The ‘pre-trial’ system was introduced in Detroit six years ago. 1970Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Apr. 10/1 Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale was accused at his pre-trial hearing of ordering the death of a Panther suspected of turning informer. 1971N.Y. Law Jrnl. 23 Nov. 17/5 If case cannot be settled the Part I judge will assign the case to a pre-trial examiner, who will, with the aid of the attorneys, prepare the pre-trial order. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 2/2 The judge had ordered the papers not to print stories about a pretrial hearing for a murder defendant because the judge did not want prospective jurors to be influenced by arguments made at the hearing. 1978Chicago June 116/3 Tom Sullivan sat at the defense table in the Hanrahan case, and he handled pre-trial matters for Kemer's co-defendant.
B. adj. (Stressed preˈtrial.) [pre- B. 2.] Of or pertaining to the period before a trial or trials.
1948B. Vesey-Fitzgerald Bk. Dog 749 Whereas in pre-trial days the range [of sheepdog] was severely restricted, nowadays, as a result of trials, the scope for selection is nation-wide. 1971Times 20 Mar. 11 Most have already spent more than a year in jail awaiting trial, and pretrial detention will be deducted from their sentences. 1978Times 3 Nov. 17 (heading) Barristers' immunity from claims in negligence in pre-trial work narrowed. Ibid. 13 Nov. 7/8 Mr. Nazaryan, who has been in pre-trial detention for almost a year, is charged with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. |