Although preliminary charges have been announced, they could eventually be dropped, but a filing of indictments would set a trial in motion.
In addition, she reminded him that his lawyer had filed a motion to have the case dismissed on the grounds that he was denied his right to a speedy trial -- a motion that Lind denied Tuesday.
The order will essentially trigger additional deliberation about the deal and set into motion the trial process.
Rajaratnam lost that motion before his trial but it is a center piece of his appeal.
George Zimmerman's lead attorney Mark O'Mara presented a motion to have the trial pushed back to November.
Oftentimes the process to reverse such verdicts requires a motion for a new trial and years of legal wrangling.
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Ninety percent of those suits are abandoned or settled, and of the 300 that remain, two thirds never go to trial but are adjudicated on pretrial motion.
At trial, the court denied a Motion to Suppress but on appeal the Florida Supreme Court reversed, holding that in order to reach the level of probable cause, the State needed to demonstrate the reliability of Aldo through such factors as field-performance records showing how many times the dog had falsely alerted.
The two main political parties, Colorado and Liberal, had put aside their differences and voted in favour of the motion to begin the impeachment trial.
"We conclude that the district court did abuse its discretion when it denied the motion to sever (Stewart's trial from Simpson's) because it prejudiced Stewart by having a substantial and injurious effect on the verdict, and we therefore reverse the judgment of conviction, " the court wrote.
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The defendant has taken an aggressive tack in his trial, asking for a new judge, making the motion that his court-appointed attorneys be fired and formally requesting that he not have to take court-ordered mental competency exams.
In January, a Michigan federal district court judge denied a bank's motion to rule against such a claim without a full trial.
Section 18, therefore, makes it much easier to overcome a motion to dismiss and get to meaningful discovery that leads to a successful trial outcome, or at least a better settlement.
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"Colorado's statutory scheme regarding the affirmative defense of insanity, and the introduction of any 'mental condition' evidence at trial or sentencing, is unconstitutional in many individual respects, " they wrote in a 60-page motion and brief filed Thursday.
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