Can a lawyer who has an active defense practice also serve as an assistant district attorney?

The answer is interesting and a timely one. There’s been at least one instance in the last year where one district attorney’s office hired a well-known criminal defense lawyer as a special assistant. There was another situation where a judge appointed a defense lawyer to act in the role of the prosecutor because the judge didn’t like the way the local district attorney was prosecuting the case.

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