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Pretrial vs Retrial - What's the difference?

pretrial | retrial |

As nouns the difference between pretrial and retrial

is that pretrial is a preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial while retrial is a second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper or unfair.

As an adjective pretrial

is pertaining to a preliminary trial.

pretrial

English

Adjective

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  • Pertaining to a preliminary trial.

    • Noun

  • (legal) A preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial.
    • As a result, another pretrial review was to be held on 17 February.

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    retrial

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper or unfair

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