preliminary hearing

We're too close to the preliminary hearing to get either.

"Did the defense put on any evidence at the preliminary hearing?"

"People I've seen around for two years began talking to me after the preliminary hearing," he said.

A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for May 27.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled to take place next month.

A short preliminary hearing of the case was held last Monday.

"We have to plan for the preliminary hearing," I tell him.

There had been a short preliminary hearing in early August.

He'd spent the rest of the day going over his notes for the preliminary hearing.

Preliminary hearings in the case will probably not begin until September.

The preliminary hearing was in two days and Mason needed something.

Let me handle the preliminary hearing, then hand off to somebody else.

Lawyers expect a preliminary hearing to be held by the middle of next month.

He is due back in court on Tuesday for a preliminary hearing.

The judge has yet to set a date for the preliminary hearings.

Preliminary hearings in Italy sometimes last more than two years.

The budget now goes to the Council for preliminary hearings.

After the preliminary hearing, however, all charges against him were dropped.

He is to appear at a preliminary hearing Jan. 20.

And assuming that, the first step is a preliminary hearing.

After years of preliminary hearings, the case was ready for trial in June 1994.

Under California law, a prosecutor must provide evidence to the defense before a preliminary hearing or trial.

The case could sometimes be settled entirely through the preliminary hearing.

"How many innocent men cut and run after a stupid preliminary hearing?"

His date for a preliminary hearing on the drug arrest has not been set.