A magistrate is not a judge per se, as they have no authority over high classed misdemeanors or any felony criminal offenses or civil matters that exceed a specific amount of damage claim.
The United States was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, first noticed by doctors in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. In the United States, 1.2 million people live with HIV, about 1/8th of whom are unaware of their infection.
1 Nearly 1 in 10 of the nationâs HIV-positive people lives in California and the state ranks second in the nation in cumulative AIDS cases at nearly 160,000, surpassed only by New York. 2  80% of all HIV/AIDS cases occur among gay or bisexual men.  African-Americans account for nearly 18% of those living with HIV/AIDS.