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n. a prosecuting attorney for a state [syn: state's attorney]
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The '''State Attorney ''' office (, Praklitut Hamedinah) is one of the central bodies governing law in Israel, and the main body representing the state of Israel in court. The state of Israel, because of the different bodies which it is composed of, needs legal representation inasmuch as it prosecutes, in criminal law, and as it sues or is sued in civil law.
Usage examples of "state attorney".
And to the state Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, and the local District Attorney in Oklahoma City, Bob Macy, who has an annoying tendency to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Taking great pains to cover his tracks, Spencer had first gained entry to the Los Angeles Police Department's computers, stepped from there to the state attorney general's system in Sacramento, and from there into the parole board's computer, where he finessed the address to which Beckwatt would be paroled.
Did you know that Diskant is a member of four organizations that have been classified as Communist fronts by the California State Attorney General's Office?
See your principals this mornin', and get 'em to put it up straight to the State attorney that it ain't in the interests of public morality to push this reform game no further.
By 1947 Louis Brown was reciting his story for a group of officials that included the State Attorney General as well as the new governor and former Special Prosecutor, Kim Sigler.
They have offices in the same building, they are together a great deal, and now I hear that the state attorney-general is after both of them.
I made a good record as an assistant state attorney and I've got a good chance of becoming county attorney next year, and that's worth a minimum forty thousand, plus other business it brings in.
It was not until 1977, more than two years later, that he became state attorney general.
After some reflection on the protocol of the thing, I put in a call to the state attorney's office, too.
They told me that if I gave them access to my psychiatric files for evaluation by the 1940 State Attorney General's probe and other probes that might come up, they would release Andrea immediately.
He discovers that when Judge Irwin was state attorney general under Governor Stanton, he had accepted a bribe for dismissing a suit against an oil company that owed the state over $150,000 in back royalties.