Sentence examples for magistrate that from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court voted 12 to 8 today to reject a draft order by one magistrate that would have had the four officers face trial, said Carlos Bastidas, a lawyer for the defendants.

But for the magistrate, that would not have been the end.

The transferee claimed before the magistrate that the thing was his, and the transferor, who was the defendant, admitted the claim.

At his arraignment, Mr. Mora-Lopez told a federal magistrate that he was 47, even though officials listed his age as 51.

The prosecutor told the magistrate that Mr. Higazy "admitted ownership of the radio, but told three different versions of how he came into possession of the radio.

The arresting officer, Inspector Stephen Khamisi, later told the magistrate that the ATPU had received outside intelligence reports leading them to intercept the group.

But his allies in the court upheld a previous ruling by magistrates that overturned the re-election ban.

It seems to have been bad feeling between merchants and magistrates that led to the sacking of Hutchinson's town house.

Trial judges at this United Nations tribunal are particularly important because the three magistrates that are put in charge of each trial act as both judge and jury.

In 366 bc six undifferentiated military tribunes were replaced with five magistrates that had specific functions: two consuls for conducting wars, an urban praetor who handled lawsuits in Rome, and two curule aediles who managed various affairs in the city.

One of his four lawyers, Maître Eric Dupond-Moretti, said after yesterday's interrogation by magistrates that M. Kerviel had been abandoned by his bosses like "rats leaving a sinking ship".