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District justices certified

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Fayette County district justices Randy Abraham, Brenda Cavalcante and Ronald Haggerty Sr. were again certified for service as members of Pennsylvania’s Unified Judicial System after successful completion recently of continuing legal education course work. Conducted by the Minor Judiciary Education Board and the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), the school for district justices is held in Chambersburg.

The week-long instructional program is designed to ensure that district justices remain current in a variety of legal topics and management techniques required to fairly adjudicate cases and effectively run a district justice office.

Continuing education course work is required by statute for each of the more than 500 Pennsylvania district justices, with approximately 45 district justices attending one of 14 such classes as some time during each year.

District justices are the grass roots level of the state’s judicial system. In counties other than Philadelphia, district justices have jurisdiction over summary, criminal and motor vehicle cases, landlord-tenant matters and other civil actions where the amount claimed does not exceed $8,000. District justices may also accept guilty pleas in misdemeanor cases of the third degree under certain circumstances. They also have authority to issue arrest and search warrants and to hold arraignments and preliminary hearings in criminal cases.

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