Currently what is the role of federal magistrate judges?

What will be an ideal response?


They have the authority to perform a wide variety of judicial duties in felony cases including holding preliminary proceedings, conduction initial appearances, appoint counsel for indigent defendants, hold bail hearings, and issue warrants. In misdemeanors cases, they have the authority to preside over trials, accept guilty pleas, and impose sentences.

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The French and German arrangements for civil order control are similar in that:

a. both have separate divisions to handle civil order control b. both require recruits to train for and perform civil order work before going on street patrol c. both require civil order police to live in barracks d. both a and c

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A ______ sentence is one in which the actual number of years a person may serve is not fixed but is rather a range of years.

a. split b. determinate c. indeterminate d. mandatory

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A legal strategy that defendants use to establish that they should not be found guilty of a crime is a ______.

a. defense b. charge c. felony d. guilty plea

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This form of ATM debit card/theft occurs when a threat installs a card reader device on an ATM machine to steal the magnetic information from the user’s card:

a. Pin Cracking b. Lebanese Loop c. Card Trapping d. Skimming

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