Meetings like this were taking place across Russia as judges, prosecutors, lawyers and the police prepared for the new code.

Meanwhile, prosecutors prepared formal charges, including three counts of first degree murder lodged against both persons.

But already the prosecutors were preparing for the next stage.

She said she had also been told that the prosecutors were preparing to make a case against her mother.

When the trial began Haglund walked in the trap that the prosecutor had carefully prepared for him, and he chose to confess again.

Justice Department officials predicted today that the review would probably lead to changes in the way prosecutors prepare cases and charge defendants.

Insider-case prosecutors are preparing for the trial phase more than a year after the scandal was uncovered.

In the pretrial review, the prosecutors did not prepare adequately.

He said the prosecutors had prepared people in the case by suggesting that unusual events could occur.

Nor did it indicate that prosecutors were preparing to seek an indictment soon, they said.