The phrase "assistant magistrate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a subordinate or junior magistrate who assists a higher-ranking magistrate in legal proceedings.
Example: "The assistant magistrate reviewed the case files before the hearing began."
Alternatives: "deputy magistrate" or "junior magistrate."
This month Mr. Letta announced a bill that aims to cut the backlog of four million cases by hiring assistant magistrates and forcing mediation.
The colony's charter called for a governor, deputy governor, and 18 assistant magistrates (who served as a precursor to the idea of a Governor's Council), who were all to be elected annually by the freemen of the colony.
In 1830 Lawrence traveled to Calcutta (now Kolkata) with his brother Henry and then to Delhi, where he served for 19 years as an assistant judge, magistrate, and tax collector and where he came to oppose the oppression of the peasantry by the talukdars (tax collectors).
Mentions the men involved in the arrest; prosecution & trial: Detective Rikman and Tryell, Assistant District Attorney Charles N. Cohen, Magistrate J.A. Blanchfield, Judge Peter J. Brancato.
In 1801, he published The Magistrate's Assistant, a guide to the state's magisterial laws.
Winthrop argued that the assistants, as experienced magistrates, must be able to check the democratic institution of the general court, because "a democracy is, amongst most civil nations, accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government".
But Elie Honig, an assistant United States attorney, told a magistrate judge, Ronald L. Ellis, that Mr. Gotti was a dangerous man accused of many serious offenses.
"Your honor, this is a one-way trip out of the country," an assistant United States attorney, Jeffrey Tsai, told Magistrate Judge William Turnoff.
"As a direct result of that leak back in November of 1999, the defendants in this case engaged in several conspiracies to murder people that they suspected were cooperating" with the government, John M. Hillebrecht, an assistant United States attorney, told United States Magistrate Judge Frank Maas at the hearing.
