Prosecutor vs Magistrate - What's the difference?
prosecutor | magistrate |
A lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.
(legal) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
(Quebec) A master's degree
As nouns the difference between magistrate and prosecutor
is that magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both while prosecutor is a lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.prosecutor
English
Noun
(wikipedia prosecutor) (en noun)- The prosecutor got the witness to admit he was lying.
