But the city's magistrates allowed well-wishers to visit the prisoners and public sympathy for their plight was strong.
Judge Ronald Bodenheimer of District Court, who faces federal drug and conspiracy charges, was released from custody by a federal magistrate and allowed to return home with an electronic monitoring device.
Caesar then increased the number of magistrates who were elected each year, which created a large pool of experienced magistrates, and allowed Caesar to reward his supporters.
Wilde's counsel, Sir Edward Clarke, was finally able to get a magistrate to allow Wilde and his friends to post bail.
There followed a battle that lasted most of the day between police and the magistrates to allow access to the courts.
The court's decision, voted favorably earlier this week by four of five Magistrates, could allow prosecutors to investigate atrocities from the civil war that stretched from 1980 to 1992.
Single magistrates should be allowed to sit outside courts, probably in community centres, to dispense justice in low-level, uncontested cases, the document will also suggest.
The Gun Court Amendment Act of 1983 allowed Resident Magistrates to grant pre-trial bail, and to decide whether to keep firearms cases in the Resident Magistrate's Court or to send them to the High Court division of the Gun Court.
In 1999, French investigators and magistrates, who were curiously allowed to search the files of Libyan intelligence, found Libya guilty of the UTA attack.
For example, in North Carolina, a U.S. federal judge is hearing a challenge to State Senate Bill 2, which allows magistrate judges to "recuse [themselves] from performing all lawful marriages... based upon any sincerely held religious objection".
