Commonwealth's Attorney
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Commonwealth's Attorney is the title given to the elected felony prosecutor in Virginia and Kentucky. While many other states have titles such as District Attorney, County Attorney, County Prosecutor, or State's Attorney, for their prosecutors, Virginia and Kentucky each style their state as a Commonwealth (as does Pennsylvania and Massachusetts) and have chosen this name for their felony prosecutors.
Kentucky derived the title of the office from Virginia, as it did much of its law when it was broken away from Virginia to become the 15th state.
Commonwealth's Attorneys are elected in their separate jurisdictions in both Virginia and Kentucky.
External links
- [www.prosecutor.info] indexes 2,900+ prosecutor and Commonwealth's Attorney web sites throughout the USA and other countries.
- [Constitution of Virginia]
- [Kentucky Constitution]
- [Virginia Statutes]
- [Kentucky Statutes]
- [Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, Virginia Beach, Virginia]
- [Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, Chesterfield County, Virginia (Chesterfield)]
- [Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville)]
- [Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, Fayette County, Kentucky (Lexington)]
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