Trials and hearings. What’s the diff? Yes, precisely. Aren’t they sort of the same thing? Well, yes. And no. Sort of. But not exactly. Well, then … Let’s vivisect, then reassemble. What, exactly, is a hearing? The law defines a hearing as “a proceeding of relative formality (though generally less formal than a trial) … ” Hmmm. You see this sort of circular firing squad in law sometimes, a “this isn’t that” kind of definition which doesn’t always get you that much farther down the road. When I was a young lawyer — in the days before the Internet and …
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