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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 ...
The state of California in 1999 had around 2.5 million outstanding warrants, with nearly 1 million of them in the Los Angeles area. [24] The city of Baltimore, Maryland had 100,000 as of 2007. [25] New Orleans, Louisiana had 49,000 in 1996. [26] The state of Texas in 2009 had at least 1.7 million outstanding warrants in the Houston area alone. [27]
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]
According to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, to be eligible to register to vote in Texas a person must: Be a U.S. citizen. Be a resident of the county where they’re registering.
A magistrate has been issued with a misconduct warning after he swore in court and told a witness "I am sick of seeing you, get out". Jonathan Dannatt, an experienced Justice of the Peace in ...
However, in 1958, the revision of the code was undertaken by a 23-person committee formed of the Texas State Bar with a tripartite goal to remove technicalities and loopholes by which a party can exploit the law, reform the appeal system, and "strike the delicate balance" of protecting the people of Texas from crime while also preventing others ...
The Texas District Courts form part of the Texas judicial system and are the trial courts of general jurisdiction of Texas. As of January 2019, 472 district courts serve the state, each with a single judge, elected by partisan election to a four-year term.
Chatham County Magistrate Court is one of five courts in the state that elects its magistrate judges. There are two full-time judges, Michael H. Barker and Moss, and two part-time judges, Bonzo ...