Talk:State's attorney

The title state's attorney is not used in most states, not just Illinois. This is a good idea for an article, but it should be reworked to move beyond the Land of Lincoln. - DavidWBrooks 15:38, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks for the heads up on my mistake. I'll fix it. Gerald Farinas 15:56, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Nevertheless, the article is very much USA-centered. Other countries also have or had State Attorneys. In most cases the title is then the equivalent of Attorney General (either in the American or British sense of the word). I added to historical examples to the intro of the article as incumbants of the office there have an article in Wikipedia. Michel Doortmont (talk) 22:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Well a State's Attorney is not the exact equivalent of the British-style Attorney General (AG). In most Commonwealth jurisdictions, an AG is both chief prosecutor as well as chief legal advisor to the government. Whereas an American State's Attorney office seems to be concerned with the criminal system. This difference is more marked in the UK itself, where the Attorney-General of England and Wales is the chief government lawyer, but the office in charge of the criminal system and prosecutions is the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.1.102 (talk) 16:57, 2 May 2014 (UTC)


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The result of the move request was: moved to State's attorney. Favonian (talk) 08:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

State& → State's attorney –

Per WP:CAPS and WP:TITLE, and because this is a generic, common noun, not a propriety term or a title, the article title should be downcased. Sister articles are named with lower case, including City attorney, Contract attorney, County attorney, and Associate attorney. Tony  (talk)  06:01, 4 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Support. Not by default a title, so no justification for all words to be capped (cf. prime minister). N oetica Tea? 01:42, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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