MORNING HEADLINES | A suspended Charleston County magistrate facing a federal sex materials charge will remain in jail without bond until a detention hearing set for next week, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

James B. Gosnell Jr., suspended Tuesday as a magistrate judge after federal agents arrested him for possession of child sexual abuse materials, is scheduled for a detention hearing Sept. 22 – unless he waives his right to one and agrees to stay in detention, according to media reports.

Meanwhile, local and state prosecutors say they’ll review cases that went before Gosnell to determine the impact of his arrest on past cases he heard. A magistrate judge since 1996, Gosnell presided mostly over preliminary hearings to determine whether prosecutors could proceed with local char

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