How to Use justice of the peace in a Sentence

justice of the peace

noun phrase

• The justice of the peace talked about the Bottone case in the courtroom.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The next month, the two were married by a justice of the peace in Fort Worth.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Races for the school board, Board of Regents and justices of the peace are also on the ballot.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• The death and Lynch’s identity were confirmed by Nikol Endres, a justice of the peace in the area.
  — Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• In late April, after Rambo failed to respond to the case, the justice of the peace ruled in Doyle’s favor.
  — Emily Brindley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2024
• We were married by a justice of the peace with my parish priest as a witness and were very happy.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• DeLeon said that the time of death is still unknown and that the Brazos County justice of the peace has ordered an autopsy.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• One justice of the peace, Justin Knight, abstained from the vote due to having business with data centers.
  — Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
• Pahrump is a small town not far from the California state line, at the southernmost tip of Nye County where Fiore is a justice of the peace.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
• The Quorum Court is the legislative body of county government and its members are called justices of the peace.
  — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• Chatfield, who grew up in Prospect, is also a justice of the peace with many weddings to officiate this time of year.
  — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• Lillie McMullen, justice of the peace for District 5, asked about how deputies could be deployed faster to service calls.
  — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2023
• The justice of the peace worries that lack of access to broadband will lower the region's property values.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
• Services there include a passport office, a justice of the peace court and a constable’s office.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 3 July 2023
• Kelly’s husband, Steve—who a few years after all this happened was one of many National Guardsmen sent to Iraq—served as a justice of the peace for nine years.
  — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Crowder told the justices of the peace the paving program is driven by current traffic and anticipated growth.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2023
• The police recovered spent Lake City casings after a former justice of the peace killed a Texas district attorney and his wife.
  — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• He was released on his own recognizance after being arraigned by a justice of the peace Thursday night, and is due back in court July 18.
  — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Oropesa’s next court appearance won’t be until after he’s indicted, which isn’t expected for weeks, the justice of the peace said.
  — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 3 May 2023
• In Texas, identifying the dead is usually left to local justices of the peace, most of whom are understaffed and underfunded.
  — Ananda Rose, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
• Each justice of the peace represents a district within the county of roughly equal population.
  — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• His father, Ernesto Juventino Salinas, was a justice of the peace and Salinas grew accustomed to residents knocking on the door of their ranch house at all hours of the day and night to report a dead body or missing truck.
  — Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
• As the justices of the peace debated the merits of the different amendments and differing philosophies on regulations, eyes from beyond Faulkner County watched from the benches of the small courtroom.
  — Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
• As a Texas Ranger responsible for high-profile cases in small towns, Salinas routinely received calls, usually from sheriff’s deputies and justices of the peace.
  — Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
• Recount results in a justice of the peace primary separated by just three votes in 2022 were unveiled in court about a week after initial results were certified.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
• Any justice of the peace—or even a member of a community—could come forward and demand that people posing a danger post a financial bond to guarantee their good behavior.
  — Saul Cornell / Made By History, TIME, 26 July 2024
• Eventually, more officers arrived, followed by a justice of the peace to document the haunting scene: drawers pulled out, walls riddled with bullet holes, bullet casings carpeting the floor.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• Her story is the stuff of fiction, including a cast of eccentric local characters (ranchers, grave keepers, justices of the peace, pediatric pathologists) and a hodgepodge of federal and state law-enforcement officials.
  — Ananda Rose, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
• According to a local justice of the peace, a forensic pathologist ruled that Savannah died of probable positional asphyxia, which can happen when babies are slouched forward or arched backward, cutting off their airflow.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• Arizona's voters will elect a new U.S. senator, members of Congress, a new state Legislature, state utility and water regulators, county executives and supervisors, mayors, council members, school board members and justices of the peace.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024