Top Results for Prosecutor

Vincent Bugliosi was a prominent U.S. lawyer known for his career as a prosecutor. He gained significant recognition through his work securing the conviction of Charles Manson and members of his cult on multiple murder charges in 1971. As Assistant District Attorney for Los Angeles County, Bugliosi...

Preet Bharara is an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until his dismissal in 2017. His office prosecuted cases involving financial fraud, insider trading, organized crime, terrorism, and public corruption. After leaving government se...

Fatou Bensouda is a Gambian lawyer and international criminal prosecutor who served as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2012 to 2021. She was the first woman and the first African to lead the Office of the Prosecutor, after previously serving as the court's Deputy Prosecutor. Her...

Loretta Lynch is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, becoming the first African American woman to hold the position. Before her appointment as Attorney General, Lynch served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern D...

Andrew Weissmann is an American attorney who served as a lead prosecutor on Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Previously, he directed the FBI's organized crime section and led the Enron Task Force, securing convictions against several form...

Diary of a Prosecutor is a South Korean television legal drama broadcast by JTBC beginning in 2019. Based on essays by former prosecutor Kim Woong, it follows prosecutors working in a regional office and emphasizes their daily caseloads, workplace relationships, and bureaucratic pressures rather tha...

Mary Jo White is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who became the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Her office handled major terrorism, organized crime, and financial cases during her tenure. President Barack Obama later appointed her chair o...

Patrick J. Fitzgerald is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 2001 to 2012. He also acted as special counsel in the investigation into the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, which led to the prosecution and 2007 convict...

Witch at Court is a 2017 South Korean legal drama television series broadcast on KBS2, starring Jung Ryeo-won and Yoon Hyun-min. The story follows Ma Yi-deum, a pragmatic and often ruthless prosecutor who is unexpectedly reassigned to a specialized task force handling sex crimes against children and...

Janet King is an Australian legal and political drama television series that aired on ABC from 2014 to 2017. A spin-off of the 2011 series Crownies, it stars Marta Dusseldorp reprising her role as Janet King, a formidable Senior Crown Prosecutor who later serves as a Royal Commissioner. The series f...

Jack Smith is an American lawyer and prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, appointed in November 2022. In 2023, he secured federal indictments against former President Donald Trump on charges related to the retention of classified documents and efforts...

Sally Yates is an American lawyer who served as a federal prosecutor, United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, deputy attorney general, and briefly acting attorney general. In January 2017 she directed the Department of Justice not to defend President Donald Trump's initial trave...

James Comey is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013 until President Donald Trump dismissed him in May 2017. Earlier roles included United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and deputy attorney gene...

Amy Klobuchar is a Democrat who has represented Minnesota in the United States Senate since 2007. Before entering the Senate, she served as Hennepin County attorney, the chief prosecutor for Minnesota's most populous county, and worked as a lawyer in private practice. She earned degrees from Yale an...

Rudolph W. Giuliani is an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989, he led prominent federal prosecutions of organized-crime figures and financial criminals. His mayoralty included...

Conviction is a 2006 American legal drama television series broadcast by NBC and developed by Dick Wolf. It follows a group of prosecutors working on criminal cases, placing courtroom procedure and professional relationships at the center of its format. The series is related to the Law & Order telev...

Geraldine Ferraro was an American attorney, prosecutor, and Democratic politician from New York. She represented New York's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985. In 1984, Walter Mondale selected her as his vice-presidential running mate, making Ferraro th...

Fani Willis is an American prosecutor who served as district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia. She became nationally known for the 2023 state indictment of Donald Trump and eighteen co-defendants under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute. The case concerned alleged eff...

Marcia Clark is an American prosecutor, lawyer, and author who worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office beginning in 1981. She became widely known as the lead prosecutor in the 1995 criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. After...

Christopher Darden is an American attorney, author, and legal educator who worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He became widely known as a co-prosecutor with Marcia Clark in the 1995 murder trial of OJ Simpson. After leaving the prosecutor's office, Darden taught law, wrote...

Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the district attorney of New York County, commonly called Manhattan, since January 2022. A Democrat, he previously worked as a federal prosecutor, held senior roles in the New York State Attorney General's Office, and tau...

Chris Christie is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. Before becoming governor, he was U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 through 2008. Christie sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and aga...

Robert Hur is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice. His investigation examined the discovery and handling of classified documents from Joe Biden's vice presidency and Senate career, including materials found at the Penn Bid...

Rod Rosenstein is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as United States Deputy Attorney General from 2017 to 2019. While holding that position, he appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigatio...

John Durham is an American prosecutor who served as the United States attorney for the District of Connecticut from 1999 to 2017. In 2020, Attorney General William Barr appointed him special counsel to investigate the origins and conduct of the FBI's investigation into links between Russia and the 2...

Nancy Grace is an American lawyer, former prosecutor, television host, and legal commentator. After working as a prosecutor in Georgia, she became known nationally for the HLN program Nancy Grace, which ran from 2005 to 2016 and examined criminal cases, including the 2011 Casey Anthony trial. Her on...