Bifurcated Trial A trial that is divided into stages: one stage to establish guilt or liability, and the other stage to establish damages or punishment.
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bifurcated trial: a case in which the trial of the liability issue in a personal injury or wrongful death case is heard separate from and prior to trial of the damages in question ...
BIFURCATED TRIAL: To try issues of a case separately in the hope that by resolving one issue, other issues may settle short of trial.
BILL OF SALE: A written statement by which one person transfers to another his rights to personal property.
PENALTY PHASE: The second part of a bifurcated trial, in which the jury hears evidence and then votes on what penalty or damages to impose.
PENSION PLAN: An employer's program for providing retirement income to eligible employees.
In Gregg, the Court found, in a 7-2 ruling, that Georgia's new death penalty laws passed Eighth Amendment scrutiny: the statutes provided a bifurcated trial in which guilt and sentence were determined separately; and, ...
 See also: Court, State, Liability, Trial, Claim
  
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