Sentence examples for magistrate in a from inspiring English sources

As a kind of magistrate in a tall wig and a false front, Bracknell lives for her younger charges' attempts to contradict her.

The solicitor, whose identity has been suppressed, told a magistrate in a December 2013 hearing that the law was neutral on whether Monis should be granted bail.

Mr. Budiman, a slight young man who appeared before the magistrate in a green prison jumpsuit, said nothing during the hearing in Alexandria, a Washington suburb.

"I am innocent and have been framed by the forest officials," Khan said in his plea to the judicial magistrate in a Jodhpur district court.

Whatever US officials suspect of this British family, they deserve respect for the fundamental right we all must protect at our peril: equal justice before a neutral magistrate in a public forum.

The bureaucratic and intimate frustrations of a Spanish magistrate in a remote Argentinean outpost in the eighteenth century furnish the director Lucrecia Martel's new film with rarefied passions and inspire a highly original style to match.

Robert Zimmerman was a magistrate in Virginia, a position that is distinct from that of judge in that state.

John A. Blair, one of the judges of New Jersey, qualified to sit as a committing magistrate in such a proceeding, under § 5270, Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 3591).

The matter is listed for sentencing, but she worries the lack of video evidence would hinder a magistrate in determining an appropriate sentence.

Just as she returned, the president announced plans to abolish the position of investigating magistrates; in a sign that her influence was ebbing, those plans emanated from the Élysée Palace rather than the Justice Ministry.

The 24-page ruling was gingerly prepared by Sandinistas before swift approval, he said, without properly informing opposition magistrates, in a late session after most court employees had gone home.