trial date
Scheduled courtroom appearance
A trial date is the scheduled day when a court case will be heard before a judge or jury.
Setting a trial date establishes deadlines for pretrial motions, discovery, and plea negotiations.
Trial dates frequently get postponed: The trial date was pushed back three months due to new evidence.
In criminal cases especially, defendants may wait months or years for their trial date.
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- court appearanceMandatory attendance before judge
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- postponementDelaying to later
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- criminal trialsaccused, verdicts, convictions, charges, acquittals
- pretrialarraignment, bail hearing, bond hearing, booking, first appearance
trial dateplea deal
Negotiated criminal case resolution
dismissal · out-of-court settlement · case dismissed · plea agreement · charges dropped
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