Magistrates

John, the problem with magistrates is that the majority are anti-police, seeing us over overbearing on the people we put before them and 99% of the people we put before them deserve to be there. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

In the federal court system, magistrate judges formerly were called magistrates. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

Two men were brought before the Dublin magistrates on Monday for using seditious language in the streets. ❋ Unknown (1865)

[Footnote a: I here use the word magistrates in the widest sense in which it can be taken; I apply it to all the officers to whom the execution of the laws is intrusted.] ❋ Alexis De Tocqueville (1832)

The apostle therefore, for the obviating of this reproach and the clearing of Christianity from it, shows that obedience to civil magistrates is one of the laws of Christ, whose religion helps to make people good subjects; and it was very unjust to charge upon Christianity that faction and rebellion to which its principles and rules are so directly contrary. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Obedience to magistrates is a considerable branch of a Christian's duty: So is the will of God. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The plot was engineered by politicians, journalists and magistrates from the Italian Left, ❋ Unknown (2010)

The forum of the Roman people, where they assembled to enact their laws and elect their magistrates, is now enclosed for the cultivation of pot-herbs, or thrown open for the reception of swine and buffaloes. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The ambiguous office of these magistrates is explained by the tradition, that, in the twelve principal islands, twelve tribunes, or judges, were created by an annual and popular election. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Chronology has discovered some contradiction in the date of this extravagant law; the only one, perhaps, by which the negligence of magistrates is punished by death and confiscation. ❋ Unknown (1206)

[a] I here use the word magistrates in the widest sense in which it can be taken; I apply it to all the officers to whom the execution of the laws is intrusted. ❋ Unknown (1838)

“Whilst I am sure that there are occasionally some shocking decisions made in magistrates’ courts (and Crown Court and above), I fail to recognise the blizzard of howlers catalogued in this blog (and others) from my own experience” ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

If you scroll down to “Volume 1 Proceedings in magistrates’ courts” and download the 3. 8Mb spreadsheet there, you’ll find all the details in sheet S1. 1A, rows 166 to 169. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

Bottom line is, out of 8,030 convicted of burglary in magistrates’ courts, 34% were sent to Crown Court for sentencing, 16% got immediate custody from the magistrates, and the remaining 50% got non-custodial sentences. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

Bashing magistrates is easy - they can’t answer back. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

The Magistrates’ Association said 8.2% of people did not turn up for their trial in magistrates’ courts in 2006. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The so-called magistrates' revolt traces its history to a 2005 opinion written by Magistrate Smith in Texas. ❋ Julia Angwin (2011)

The fasti of the magistrates were the days in which they were permitted to plead; and those on which they did not plead were called nefasti, because then they could not plead for justice. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is still more obvious that if God has attached prerogatives or rights to the Church, these prerogatives and these rights belong exclusively neither to the head of the Church nor to the ecclesiastics; because these are not the Church itself, any more than the magistrates are the sovereign, either in a republic or a monarchy. ❋ Unknown (2007)