Sentence examples for time magistrate from inspiring English sources

Though she showed up high at a court hearing, causing her to be jailed for a time, Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold offered her a slot a year ago in the district's new drug court.

The hostile climate has been exacerbated by columnists such as Richard Littlejohn of The Daily Mail, who has regularly highlighted incidents of "scrounging", generally choosing apparently outrageous cases to which he adds a dose of his own spin: the part-time magistrate taking salsa lessons while claiming incapacity benefit was one recent example.

According to The Roanoke Times, Magistrate Judge Glen Conrad said, "That area has been notorious for problems of an unsavory sort," adding that "there's no question that you shouldn't have been there".

English law has its origins in Anglo-Saxon times, and two of its hallmarks are its preference for customary law (the common law) rather than statute law and its system of application by locally appointed part-time magistrates, by locally chosen juries, and by the traveling judges going from one county town (seat) to another on circuit.

Passing sentence, magistrate Anthony Yuen Wai-ming stated that her offences would normally result in prison time, but he decided to be lenient because of her mental disorder.

At the time, a magistrate judge ordered Mr. Forde and several of his nine co-defendants to undergo drug treatment.

Joe was, for a time, a magistrate, though his seeming unwillingness to convict anyone ensured that his time on the bench was brief.

"Yes, these young people have done the wrong thing and they are serving the time the magistrate has given them, but it is the responsibility of government to make sure that the minimum standards of the law are upheld," she said on Friday afternoon.

At one point in 2002, he worked simultaneously as an acting state district judge and a part-time federal magistrate.

The Pistorius family cheered as the decision was read, one yelling "Yes!" Oscar Pistorius wept at times as magistrate Desmond Nair explained his decision.

At the same time, French magistrates were also investigating allegations that Colonel Gaddafi had paid €50m into Sarkozy's 2007 campaign.