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South Carolina

TigressDem

(5,126 posts)

1. WHAT?!!! HOW?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jan 5, 2021, 08:51 AM

Jan 2021

HOW do you handle legal cases without practicing law ever before? I mean at least they have a law degree? Maybe newbie?

It can't be legal to put someone in that position who hasn't even taken bar exam?

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they handle hundreds of thousands of misdemeanor and civil cases every year, roughly three-quarters of the state’s magistrates have never practiced law in their life....

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Magistrate Judges Took Bribes, Stole Money and Mishandled Cases. South Carolina Officials Now Want [View all] TexasTowelie Jan 2021 OP

WHAT?!!! HOW? TigressDem Jan 2021 #1

Wait...Those Are Bad Things, Right? COL Mustard Jan 2021 #2

Virginia has more or less the same arrangement with Magistrates. no_hypocrisy Jan 2021 #3