At his original trial, Mr. Jones's defense lawyer failed to speak with possible witnesses, obtain a police report or conduct a pretrial investigation.

It would appear that the pretrial investigation determined the accused's fate without as much as affording him a right of effective participation in the process.

The incident was not reported at the time, but found later in a declassified pretrial investigation by the KGB.

Arrests and the pretrial investigation ran from 1984 to 1987, and the trial ran from 1987 to 1990.

The Marine Corps said the pretrial investigation would take about three weeks.

The Marine Corps said an officer would review the evidence in the pretrial investigation, which was "somewhat akin to a grand jury proceeding."

Most of cases ended in pretrial investigations, but Bäckman run a few cases by himself in a court.

In some cases, documents obtained from the companies themselves during pretrial investigations appear to back that claim.

On February 24, 2009 the Prosecutor General canceled the pretrial investigation.

Laxalt declared that pretrial investigations had found no evidence of the wrongdoing at issue.