prosecuting attorney

Lawrence, who began working in Garland County’s prosecuting attorney’s office in 1994 and was elected as the prosecuting attorney in 2016, declined to comment, citing an office prohibition on speaking about personnel matters.
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“They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.
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Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.
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“I noticed something,” I say to Marvin, feeling a little like Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law.
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It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.
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As a Washington attorney, he took on companies that seemed immune to change, even when they were ineffective.
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For the purpose of ascertaining the Board's powers in this connection the opinion of the Attorney General has been requested.
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"Well, I have everything ready now," said the attorney when Jean called at his office the following afternoon.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Uncle David had none of that small diplomatic genius that helps to make a good attorney.
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Mr. Attorney with great good humour said, "Very true, and probably you then paid its full value."
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The Elder arrived the next morning, and after being greeted by the family, with Glavis, went at once to a white attorney.
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British Dictionary definitions for prosecuting attorney

noun

US law (in some states) an officer in a judicial district appointed to conduct criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state and people

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