Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota

“The duty of a prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict.”

ABA Standards Relating to the Prosecution Function and Defense Function, §1.1(c) (1970).

“To that end, I promise that this office will enforce the law with temperance and without malice, to seek truth and not victims, to serve the law and not fractional purposes and to approach these tasks with humility and respect.”

News Releases

Published: 5/14/2013
A pair of Suffolk County juries returned guilty verdicts this afternoon for their respective defendants charged with the torture killings of three people in Central Islip in August of 2009.

Published: 5/10/2013
Wesley Paul, 41, was convicted late this afternoon of second degree murder in the August 7, 2010 stabbing death of his wife.

Published: 5/7/2013
A grand jury has indicted three men suspected of swindling a Take Five lottery winner.