11.   Judges in Boston, which has a comparatively light caseload, are handling pretrial motions in civil cases via video hookups with courts out west.

12.   John Conte, the Worcester County district attorney, said his office would not comment on any pretrial motions.

13.   Lawyers for Ms. Grossberg and Peterson argued in pretrial motions that both defendants believed the child was stillborn when they disposed of the body in a motel trash bin.

14.   Pretrial motions in the Leckie case are scheduled to begin Monday before Judge Earl Carroll.

15.   Pretrial motions suggest that the defense lawyers will try a tactic common in murder trials, which will be to put the prosecution on trial.

16.   Pretrial motions were filed on Thursday asking Judge Joe Drago to join the two cases of the suspects in the death of Adrianne Jones.

17.   She was faced with thousands of wiretapped conversations and a flood of pretrial motions from defense lawyers, but she won the drug convictions.

18.   Snowe, a key potential swing voter in the impeachment process, said she has begun reading the pretrial motions.

19.   Special masters may not decide dispositive pretrial motions.

20.   Strand is expected to clear the decks of remaining pretrial motions during the next three weeks.