Legal Opinion
United States v. Lloyd Williams
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 20, 1994No. 193, Docket 93-1224PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Among the issues before us on this appeal is whether the Federal Magistrates Act and the Constitution bar a magistrate judge from administering an allocution to a defendant entering a guilty plea to a felony. Congress has greatly multiplied the number of magistrate judges in recent years. Its purpose was not to create more judicial officers so that they could simply stand by and wait, but so that they could be a very present help to district courts, the dockets of which are awash in a sea of cases, and which therefore have the utmost need of magistrate judges’ aid.
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