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The magistrate judge's seat is not a separate court; the authority that a magistrate judge exercises is the jurisdiction of the district court itself, delegated to the magistrate judge by the district judges of the court under governing statutory authority, local rules of court, or court orders. Rather than fixing the duties of magistrate ...
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
Embry Jerode Kidd (born 1983) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida since 2019. He is a designate to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
On February 27, 2023, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Crews to a seat being vacated by Judge Raymond P. Moore, who subsequently assumed senior status on June 20, 2023. [9] Crews was the third magistrate judge to be nominated for a district court vacancy in Colorado. [6]
Moxila A. Upadhyaya (pronunciation ⓘ) is a United States magistrate judge. Before becoming a magistrate judge in September 2022, she was a partner at the law firm Venable LLP. As a magistrate judge, Upadhyaya has presided over preliminary and limited matters for cases, including the arraignment in the federal prosecution of Donald Trump ...
The position of stipendiary magistrate in New Zealand was renamed in 1980 to that of district court judge. The position was often known simply as "magistrate" or with the postnominal initials "SM" in newspapers' court reports. In the late 1990s, a position of community magistrate was created for District Courts on a trial basis. A community ...
He assumed office as a United States magistrate judge in 2016. [3] In that capacity, he presided over the arraignment of actress Lori Loughlin, in her trial for fraud in connection with the admission of her daughters to the University of Southern California, which was part of the larger Varsity Blues scandal.
Brown received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Columbia College in 1985 and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1988. Brown began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Jacob Mishler of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1988 to 1989.