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Unpaid, unlearned and still constitutional: the lay magistrate on trial

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Justice of the peace (Wikipedia)
History in the United Kingdom and History in the United States sections (Wikipedia article Justice of the peace, read as raw wikitext, action=raw)
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the Supreme Court of the United States held that trial before a nonlawyer judge did not violate due process where the defendant had a right to a trial 'de novo' before a law-trained judge
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