An individual trained in the law who has received a law degree from a recognized university: An attorney is authorized to practice law in a given jurisdiction.

A prosecutor who serves under another prosecutor in local or state jurisdictions; government prosecutor: Sam read in the article about an assistant state's attorney who worked as an associate and colleague with the prosecuting attorney of the state he lived in.

Government prosecutors who are subordinate to the U.S. attorney who heads the prosecutor's office for each federal district: Assistant U.S. attorneys who work in the criminal section of the U.S. Attorney's office, are frequently called federal prosecuteors.