大多数案件只在初审阶段进行：例如，刑事被告被定罪（通过审判或认罪）并由法庭判决，案件就结束了。

Most cases go no further than the trial court: for example, the criminal defendant is convicted (by a trial or a guilty plea) and sentenced by the court and the case ends.

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该案件的审理在本月初结束，并于4月17日做出判决。

The trial concluded earlier this month and the verdict is due April 17.

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斯莫利一案裁定之后三个月，科赫公司结束了与环保署长达五年的管道泄漏一案，在那之后的1997年又卷进了与环保署的第二宗案件。

Three months after the Smalley verdict, Koch settled the five-year-old EPA case for pipeline leaks, along with a second EPA case brought in 1997.

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