Mr Berlusconi has just gone on trial in the last of the cases in which he is a defendant.

贝卢斯科尼刚刚接受了最近丑闻案的审判，而在那些案件中他均是被告人。

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Less than 2% of federal cases result in a trial.

只有不到2%的联邦案件得到了审理。

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So ever fewer cases are going to trial: the ratio of federal trials to initial filings in 2009 was a twelfth of what it was in 1962.

如此一来，需要审理的案件越来越少：2009年开庭审理的联邦案件与原始诉讼案件的比例仅为1962年的十二分之一。

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"I am therefore assigning priority to reforming and reorganizing our prison system, reviewing procedures for investigating alleged crimes by the state for special appeals and for the cases of detention without trial for citizens."

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Second, a similar assessment should be done using U.S. federal legal cases (this study looks only at cases from courts in the the 50 states) as the study sample, using either the Google Scholar small sample of Appellate Court cases, or a larger one including a broader set of Trial Court cases that did not reach Appellate Courts.

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Division of property (at least in California) is handled at trial and only approximately 2-3 percent of the cases go to trial.

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It presented 11 of those cases at trial, along with testimony of physicians that the plaintiffs had no evidence of asbestosis.

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