preliminary proceedings

The preliminary proceedings were eventually suspended on 20 May 1998.

As there were no preliminary proceedings against Malloth, he was freed.

Judge Stein had rejected that argument during preliminary proceedings.

The object, in all such preliminary proceedings, is to find out what the general sense of a nation is, and to be governed by it.

Poirot and I attended the preliminary proceedings.

Lieutenant Cohen and lawyers for other defendants made a motion that the preliminary proceedings be suspended until that information is released.

The count ordered the summons in person of la Pigoreau, who had not been compromised in the original preliminary proceedings.

In December 2008, the initiated preliminary proceedings were put because of careless homicide by the public prosecutor's office of Mönchengladbach.

As a civilian, Ms. Hoster cannot be forced to testify in the preliminary proceeding, known as an Article 32 hearing.

His opinion also concluded that Hurtado's due process right was not violated because an information is "merely a preliminary proceeding and can result in no final judgment."

Five days after the event, prosecutors initiated preliminary proceedings against the father for negligent homicide, since the gun had not been properly locked away as required by law.

"These are preliminary proceedings to determine if we have any common ground," said Donald L. Graf, senior vice president of Kansas City Southern.

As a magistrate, a position with lesser authority, she handled preliminary proceedings like arraignments and bail hearings in criminal cases and proceedings in civil litigation.

The preliminary proceeding gives each citizen, feeling unlawfully mistreated by an authority, the possibility to object and to force a review of an administrative act without going to court.

Donnelly demanded and won the disqualification of a lay magistrate, invoked an ancient statute to close preliminary proceedings to the public, insisted on other concessions for his client.

According to an affidavit filed in 1998 in Michigan, a 12-year-old relative complained that Studebaker fondled her while they were wrestling, but it was dropped during the preliminary proceeding.

This preliminary proceeding laying bare his head, the expert lady, clasping him tightly round the throat with one hand, inflicted a shower of blows (dealt with singular vigour and dexterity) upon it with the other.

Settlements in wrongful death cases usually do not come until after preliminary proceedings, like the taking of depositions, a process that takes about two years, said Sanford Rubenstein, a lawyer who has represented plaintiffs in several such cases.

The former method requires some effort, but it makes the case more realistic when it comes to cross-examination, and it enables the preliminary proceedings, including the interviewing of witnesses and briefing of counsel, to be done by student 'solicitors.'

The Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen (the central authority of the judicial administrations of the German Länder for the clarification of National Socialist crimes) opened preliminary proceedings.

The witness, Howard Leventhal, testified in the bribery-conspiracy trial of Ms. Myerson; her companion, Carl A. Capasso, and Justice Gabel, a former state judge who handled preliminary proceedings in the Capasso divorce case in 1983.

As it was known that the Republican National Committee intended to place on the temporary roll of delegates seventy-two names of persons whose seats were contested, Governor Hadley, of Missouri, made a motion that only those delegates, whose right was not contested, should sit and vote during the preliminary proceedings.