Also present was Magistrate Pollak.
Other venues include the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and the Special Criminal Court, and there are Magistrate Courts and tribunals at lower levels.
He said: "When I was Magistrate I was coming across cases where people were driving under the influence of drugs.
Also present were magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler, two US attorney representatives, three public defenders, a court reporter and a doctor, according to a transcript from the hearing.
Q | Why else are magistrates opposed to it?
Effectively this is magistrates being creative with their sentencing in order to avoid the charge.
Among those who contacted me were magistrates, former army officers, compliance officers for IT firms, solicitors and many other businesspeople.
They were magistrates in Versailles, of liberal inclination but Royalist lineage, and "the new government was suspicious of aristocratic employees who might be covertly disaffected".
He had wrongly claimed to be a magistrate and been accused of financial irregularities in his past (which he denied).
"I heard one girl say she wants to be District Magistrate!
