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Magistrates are judicial officers with broad powers: to approve criminal charges, search warrants and subpoenas. But many are not attorneys, and until 2008 reforms they had just four days' training.
The state’s seven-day percentage of positive polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests — the common diagnostic test that detects the virus — declined to 6.2%.
Officer Jeremy Durocher, who remains with the department, is scheduled to stand trial later this year on charges of aggravated malicious wounding and using a firearm relating to the Oct. 29, 2017, shooting of Deontrace Ward.
The senator's lawyers argue state law only allows criminal investigations of elected officials when the governor, the attorney general or a grand jury has requested them.