NY's highest court rejects term limit for district attorney

... his re-election bid, because the county where he was elected lacks the authority to set his term limit. Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota is not bound by the 12-year limit approved by local voters in 1993, the Court of Appeals said in a ...

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