At the ARRAIGNMENT the person being charged (at this point the ‘defendant’) is advised of the criminal charge(s) against him or her, advised of his or her constitutional rights to an attorney, preliminary hearing, right to go before a grand jury and for a jury trial, as well as the right to have an attorney appointed at state taxpayer’s expense if the person cannot afford to hire an attorney. At that time the defendant usually enters a plea of ‘not guilty’ and a preliminary hearing is set in general sessions court. The timing of the hearing varies on whether or not the defendant remains incarcerated or has made bond, and whether the defendant is being appointed an attorney or states that he or she will hire an attorney. Those people who cannot make bond are given a priority setting for ‘preliminary hearing’.