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District Attorney (D.A.) n. an elected official of a county or a designated district with the responsibility for prosecuting crimes. The duties include managing the prosecutor's office, investigating alleged crimes in cooperation with law enforcement, and filing criminal charges or bringing evidence before the Grand Jury that may lead to an indictment for a crime. In some states a District Attorney is officially entitled County Attorney or State's Attorney. United States Attorneys are also called Federal District Attorneys and are prosecutors for districts (there are several in larger states) within the Department of Justice, are appointed by the President and serve at his/her pleasure. |
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Blumenfeld has served as associate and partner of O'Melveny & Myers; Chung, Fournier, and Mavis had all previously served as deputy district attorneys for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Sheriff Lee Baca successfully sued to overturn his term limits on the very same legal grounds - namely, that state law doesn't give counties the power to limit terms of sheriffs, district attorneys and assessors since state law creates these offices. m-house counsel for Manhattan Apartments, which is the Hamilton/2 exclusive marketer" and a lot of professionals--teachers, assistant district attorneys, even doctors just starting out--cannot afford homeownership. |
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