[Village Kid 2]

To expand on the makeup of Florida's State Attorney system:

Florida has 20 judicial circuits composed of one or more counties. Each circuit has an elected State Attorney, Public Defender, and Circuit and County Court judges. We are in the Fifth Circuit composed of Marion, Lake, Sumter, Citrus, and Hernando counties. The state attorney offices handle all criminal cases in their circuit. When there is a conflict of interest, the Governor appoints a "special" prosecutor, I.e. a prosecutor from another circuit, to take the case. This is the way the system works and is not unusual.