Crown attorney
Noun
Meaning
Crown attorney (plural Crown attorneys)
(Canada) An attorney who represents the federal or provincial government in a court of law.
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I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.
That was Juror No. 6, communicating via email in 2015 to Crown attorney Robert Johnston a few days after she and 11 other jurors found two men guilty of heroin-related offences in a case that Johnston prosecuted at the Brampton courthouse.
Assistant Crown attorney Jennifer Holmes, who prosecuted the Windsor trial, was thankful the appeal was unsuccessful.