justice of the peace
noun phrase
: a local magistrate empowered chiefly to administer summary justice in minor cases, to commit for trial, and to administer oaths and perform marriages
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Eventually, more officers arrived, followed by a justice of the peace to document the haunting scene: drawers pulled out, walls riddled with bullet holes, bullet casings carpeting the floor.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
Chatfield, who grew up in Prospect, is also a justice of the peace with many weddings to officiate this time of year.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
His father, Ernesto Juventino Salinas, was a justice of the peace and Salinas grew accustomed to residents knocking on the door of their ranch house at all hours of the day and night to report a dead body or missing truck.
—Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
Races for the school board, Board of Regents and justices of the peace are also on the ballot.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
Arizona's voters will elect a new U.S. senator, members of Congress, a new state Legislature, state utility and water regulators, county executives and supervisors, mayors, council members, school board members and justices of the peace.
—The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2024
As a Texas Ranger responsible for high-profile cases in small towns, Salinas routinely received calls, usually from sheriff’s deputies and justices of the peace.
—Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
In 1825, he was appointed justice of the peace for Washtenaw County by then-acting Gov, William Woodbridge, and reelected in 1831.
—Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
In Texas, identifying the dead is usually left to local justices of the peace, most of whom are understaffed and underfunded.
—Ananda Rose, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
Chatfield, who grew up in Prospect, is also a justice of the peace with many weddings to officiate this time of year.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
His father, Ernesto Juventino Salinas, was a justice of the peace and Salinas grew accustomed to residents knocking on the door of their ranch house at all hours of the day and night to report a dead body or missing truck.
—Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
Races for the school board, Board of Regents and justices of the peace are also on the ballot.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
Arizona's voters will elect a new U.S. senator, members of Congress, a new state Legislature, state utility and water regulators, county executives and supervisors, mayors, council members, school board members and justices of the peace.
—The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2024
As a Texas Ranger responsible for high-profile cases in small towns, Salinas routinely received calls, usually from sheriff’s deputies and justices of the peace.
—Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
In 1825, he was appointed justice of the peace for Washtenaw County by then-acting Gov, William Woodbridge, and reelected in 1831.
—Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
In Texas, identifying the dead is usually left to local justices of the peace, most of whom are understaffed and underfunded.
—Ananda Rose, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
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