Sentence examples for a time magistrate from inspiring English sources

Though she showed up high at a court hearing, causing her to be jailed for a time, Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold offered her a slot a year ago in the district's new drug court.

Joe was, for a time, a magistrate, though his seeming unwillingness to convict anyone ensured that his time on the bench was brief.

The hostile climate has been exacerbated by columnists such as Richard Littlejohn of The Daily Mail, who has regularly highlighted incidents of "scrounging", generally choosing apparently outrageous cases to which he adds a dose of his own spin: the part-time magistrate taking salsa lessons while claiming incapacity benefit was one recent example.

According to The Roanoke Times, Magistrate Judge Glen Conrad said, "That area has been notorious for problems of an unsavory sort," adding that "there's no question that you shouldn't have been there".

This was at a time when a stipendiary magistrate remarked in court, when counsel informed him that oral sex was widely practised, "If that is really so, then I am glad that I do not have long to live".

The chairs where the dozens of defendants used to sit remained empty as groups of seven people at a time approached microphones before U.S. Magistrate Judge Velasco.

One of the funnymen Steinbrück had in mind was Silvio Berlusconi, though Il Berlusca seems less like a clown than a B-movie zombie: no matter how many times a magistrate blasts him with charges of bribery, extortion, tax fraud, or sex with an underage prostitute, he keeps rising from the dead and running, running, running for Prime Minister.

At the time, a magistrate judge ordered Mr. Forde and several of his nine co-defendants to undergo drug treatment.

English law has its origins in Anglo-Saxon times, and two of its hallmarks are its preference for customary law (the common law) rather than statute law and its system of application by locally appointed part-time magistrates, by locally chosen juries, and by the traveling judges going from one county town (seat) to another on circuit.

When the framers were doing their framing, they had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to elect the "Chief Magistrate".

Had they been behind the wheel of a new Prius, which packs at least double the horsepower, they'd be in for a heckuva time before a magistrate.