A county attorney in the United States is the prosecutor for a county or local judicial district. Many states that do not have county attorneys have instead state's attorneys or commonwealth's attorney; and many municipalities have district attorneys. In many states this is an elected position. The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system. ... A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia and Palmyra Atoll (an uninhabited incorporated unorganized territory), form the United States of America. ... Commonwealths Attorney is the title given to the elected felony prosecutor in Virginia and Kentucky. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... A district attorney is the title of an American public official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminals. ...

Federal crimes are prosecuted by a United States Attorney. United States Attorneys represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court. ...

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