pretrial

Some have spent more time in pretrial detention than their maximum potential sentence would have been if found guilty.

A charge that was planned to be dropped pretrial is not exactly that big of a deal.

The time mediation was successful it was part of the pretrial after I had filed in small claims court.

It is only when a court tosses the patent claim in the pretrial phases that a defendant avoids the risk of a potentially absurdly high verdict after trial.

As a guy who spent four months in county pretrial detention on three felonies and a misdemeanor and no bail, I do speak for myself.

During the trial testimony, they were very clear about this (regardless of whatever tptacek may say based on a few random pretrial documents); they worded it so the plots entered in as SR related activity and Bitcoin transactions but that was not part of the charges.

Standards may have tightened over time but, still, a patent claim in a hotly litigated case will not survive to trial unless it has been able to withstand a host of pretrial challenges by which a defendant has already asked a court to rule that the patent, as a matter of law, should not stand.

For example, as a criminal defense lawyer, if the Gov has a really shitty case against my Client (not saying they are necessarily innocent), guess what it will never go to trial, b/c either the case can be won on pretrial motions or I can have a case broken down to a lesser charge and it makes sense to work that out (plea) rather than risk the conviction on the original charge.

By "random pretrial documents" you are in this case referring to the indictment itself, which is the premise of the entire trial.