Duties as Public Prosecutor
Applied in 33 court decisions — leading case 53 Cal. 3d 442 - Dix v. Superior Court (1991)
Most recently applied in 9 Cal. 5th 254 - People v. Lopez (April 2020)
Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1094.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The district attorney is the public prosecutor, except as otherwise provided by law.
The public prosecutor shall attend the courts, and within his or her discretion shall initiate and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.