assistant DA
Deputy district attorney
An assistant DA is a lawyer who works under a district attorney, prosecuting criminal cases on behalf of the state or county.
Most courtroom work in prosecutor's offices falls to assistant DAs rather than the elected district attorney: The assistant DA offered a plea deal.
Also called assistant district attorney or ADA.
- prosecutorGovernment's trial lawyer
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- second chairSubordinate trial attorney
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
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- criminal trialarraignment, courtroom, criminal trial, prosecutor, charges
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- prosecutionprosecutor, DA, prosecution, public prosecutors, public prosecutor
- prosecutor's officeprosecutor, DA, deputy prosecutor, chief prosecutor, public prosecutor
- Prosecutorsprosecutor, DA, public prosecutor, federal prosecutor, criminal prosecutor
- courtsfamily court, civil court, criminal court, circuit court, juvenile court
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