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Before the first witness
Answer for the clue "Before the first witness ", 8 letters:
pretrial
Alternative clues for the word pretrial
- Like some motions
- More useful in civil than in criminal cases
- When depositions are taken
- Like some court motions
- Kind of hearing
- ___ motions (matters heard by judges in the absence of juries)
- (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried
Word definitions for pretrial in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. preceding an official trial; "pretrial publicity"; "pretrial hearings are usually for the purpose of clarifying facts and points of la"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"preliminary hearing before a trial," 1938, American English, from pre- + trial .
Usage examples of pretrial.
Mercer was down in court with me for pretrial hearings in an old case when Mike beeped him.
My last pretrial motion was an effort to convince the judge to allow my victim, Mariana Catano, to testify to two earlier episodes that involved the same defendant.
Michael knew Schaumberg had advised Mona throughout her pretrial posturing and maneuvering.
All the rules pertaining to pretrial discovery had taken the fun out of practicing law.
Please notify my assistant as soon as possible of your availability for a pretrial discovery conference.
She wants me to call to schedule an appointment for pretrial discovery!
She will schedule an appointment with you for pretrial discovery when I say she can .
When I finished explaining the legal issues, I went over a few more items regarding pretrial matters, including timing issues and the like.
It was my job to probe that crack in trial, exploit it, put it on record and then convince an appellate court of what I had not been able to convince Judge Orton Powell of during a pretrial motion to suppress the evidence in the case.
Gloria, we got into a pretrial intervention program last time, remember?
The place is owned by a man whose son I defended on a possession case, getting him out of jail and into pretrial intervention.
In pretrial motions, Minton had already asked and received permission from Judge Fullbright to use a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate the case to the jury.
It was a long shot, but Boyce was already in his mind mapping out pretrial motion number seventy-five, on the even more daring premise that the traces of French-made hand moisturizing cream in the fingerprints would unfairly bias jurors who felt that an American First Lady should use only American-made beauty products.
Williams, the upstairs maid who had pointed out to Beth that her husband was unlikely to be wanting breakfast that morning or indeed any future mornings, had been the subject of furious pretrial motions.
He had been careful not to file any pretrial motions having to do with it and not to put on his witness list anyone who might alert the prosecution to this little buried truffle.