81.   The purpose of the pretrial hearing was to determine what evidence would be allowed in the trial.

82.   The two men are being held here on federal charges, and a pretrial hearing has been scheduled Monday.

83.   The spirit then gave testimony in a pretrial hearing on a slander suit that has been bopping around the court system for two years.

84.   They contend that the truly retarded have all the protection they need in pretrial hearings that establish whether a defendant is competent to stand trial.

85.   Two weeks later, Gordon said, Duffy told him in a robing room before a pretrial hearing that he would be replaced because of his religion.

86.   Whatever the reason, or reasons, the move jarred what had been a routine pretrial hearing about jury selection procedures Thursday in U.S. District Court here.

87.   When his mental health was first discussed in open court, at a pretrial hearing, he threw his pen across the table.

88.   While some pretrial hearings could still conceivably be closed, continuous coverage of the eventual trial now seems all but certain.

89.   While video trials are prohibited in criminal cases under federal regulations, there is a move to use video in some criminal pretrial hearings.

90.   Whether the tapes will be admitted into evidence is expected to be a point of contention at pretrial hearings that begin Monday before Judge David G. Trager.