As populations and crime rates in those areas increase, the number of part-time prosecutors is gradually decreasing.

With a little more of each, dedicated part-time prosecutors like Mr. Gibbons could serve their communities more effectively and might be able to take an occasional day off.

He says that his opponent's experience is limited to trying misdemeanor cases as a part-time prosecutor in the village of Babylon and the Fire Island community of Ocean Beach.

He then settled in Putnam County, Ohio in 1842 and served as a part-time prosecutor in the county before losing the election for county judge.

In rural areas, the elected prosecutor may choose to take a reduced salary and act as a "part-time" prosecutor.

The overwhelming majority of municipal courts use part-time prosecutors who, typically, also work as criminal defense lawyers in more serious cases in Superior Court.

In 1959, then County Solicitor Lacy Mahon Jr. hired Frost as a part-time prosecutor.

Experts said the ban would force part-time municipal prosecutors to choose their more lucrative criminal defense work, leaving vacancies for municipal prosecutors that might have to be filled by less experienced lawyers.

Gaddis had two assistants, one a paralegal and one a part-time prosecutor named Hank Hooten.

Indeed, Starr has defended his decision to be a part-time prosecutor, and to structure his office as a microcosm of the Justice Department, largely as a response to Walsh's perceived overzealousness.