He’ll enter a plea if he hasn’t done so already but this hearing also covers trial prep like timetabling, witnesses to be called and any expert reports they want in advance. It’s likely a trial date is already set. In the cases I used to work on we’d have a plea and trial prep hearing a few weeks before trial
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So no clues as to what he’s charged with unfortunately. Interesting it’s a trial prep though. He was listed for trial in first week of September so something must’ve happened with that one. Either a hung jury that couldn’t come to a decision or the trial collapsed (could be for many reasons). There’s still 2 cases listed so I don’t think they’ve joined them into one trial unless that’s part of what they’re doing tomorrow