committing magistrate
noun1
Law A magistrate with the authority to conduct preliminary hearings and to decide whether the evidence merits a criminal case.
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noun
Law A magistrate with the authority to conduct preliminary hearings and to decide whether the evidence merits a criminal case.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.
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