JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case presents the question of whether a federal judge may delegate the conduct of a probation revocation hearing to a magistrate. We hold that he may not. Since appellant received a hearing before a magistrate but did not receive a hearing before a federal judge, we reverse the revocation of his probation and remand for the conduct of a hearing by the district judge.
I.
Because we reverse on procedural grounds...
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