District Attorney Definition

noun
In the U.S., a lawyer serving in a specified judicial district as prosecutor for the state or for the federal government in criminal cases.
Webster's New World
A prosecutor in the state or municipal court system, often an elected official.
Webster's New World Law
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Singular:
district attorney
Plural:
district attorneys

District Attorney Sentence Examples

  • He was United States district attorney for New York in 1853-1854.

  • An assistant District Attorney had called about prosecuting a felony drug possession, but the second note was upsetting.

  • Insurers like to county district attorney 's if you get in they were just.

  • He returned to America from a trip round the world in time to participate in the presidential campaign of 1860, and after Lincoln's inauguration he was appointed United States district attorney for Massachusetts.

  • In 1863 he was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie (disambiguation)|Erie county, of which Buffalo is the chief city.

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