Who are magistrates.
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State v. Werner (1996)
Most recently applied in 191 Wash. App. 903 - State Of Washington v. David E. Bliss (December 2015)
1987 c 202 s 103; 1971 c 81 s 9; 1891 c 53 s 2; RRS s 51.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The following persons are magistrates:
(1) The justices of the supreme court.
(2) The judges of the court of appeals.
(3) The superior judges, and district judges.
(4) All municipal officers authorized to exercise the powers and perform the duties of district judges.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.