It Is Not the Trial Yet: What Really Happens at a Pennsylvania Preliminary Hearing
You get a notice in the mail with a court date, and your stomach drops. This is it, you think. The day a judge decides whether you are guilty. Take a breath. If your hearing is set in front of a Magisterial District Judge, it is almost certainly a preliminary hearing, and that is a very different animal from a trial. What a Preliminary Hearing Is Actually For A preliminary hearing is an early checkpoint in a case involving misdemeanor or felony charges. Its job is not to deci

AnnMarie Everett
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