District Attorney Quotes
Family stories built around courtrooms and campaigns.
A father serving as an assistant district attorney fills these quotes with prison-guard stories and courtroom memories passed down at home, much like the Dad who ran his own office in New Orleans for thirty years.
I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
Any district attorney knows that an endorsement from law enforcement unions is vital to earning voters' trust. As a result, police unions play an outsized role in district attorney elections.
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My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem....
My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist...
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I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my...
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Elections turn on police union endorsements, one quote notes plainly, while another recalls a brother appointed District Attorney of Odessa. Together these lines show how personal a public office can become.
