While on trial, what do it mean to be remanded?
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While on trial, what do it mean to be remanded?
I looked his name up it has
‘remanded’ in the bail area. What
do it mean?
Asked on October 1, 2016 under Criminal Law, New York
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
"Remanded" means "sent back." It is usually used in the context of a higher court (like an appeals court) sending a case back to the trial court to either redo the trial or else have some more limited hearing or proceeding. Example: a defendant appeals, claiming his conviction should have been dismissed because a search of his property was illegal. The appeals court agrees there may have been a problem, but the evidence "on the record" before it is not strong or definite enough to say for sure; in that case, instead of dismissing the charges, the appeals court may remand, or send back to the trial court, for a hearing on the propriety of the search, to gather evidence and make a determination about whether the search was legal or not.
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