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The resumes among the candidates did prove again to be a bit of a flashpoint between two of those seeking to replace current DA Robert Morgenthau.

Cy Vance has spent much of his career in Seattle, giving an opening to Leslie Crocker Snyder to again paint herself as the one who stayed in the city through good times, and bad.

"I tried to make a real difference in my 35 years as a public servant here in New York City through the good times and the bad," Crocker Snyder said. "My family and I were put under death threat, we had security for 11 and a half years, our kids went to school with two cops each, but I stayed here."

Vance, whose father was secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter, said he had to leave town to make a name for himself separate from his father.

"I moved out to Washington State because I had a very, very well known father who was also a lawyer in this town who also had the same name, and I thought it was incumbent upon me to go and make a name for myself," Vance Junior said. "What I've done is I bring to the DA's office by having national experience, a national perspective on law enforcement and criminal justice."

Also in the race, Richard Aborn, who repeated his belief that justice in Manhattan has too often tilted against African Americans.

"Right now, one in three African American men will spend some portion of their life in prison. That to me is an absolute disgrace," said Aborn.

The others joined him in that assessment and most other issues.

Aborn has not tried a case to verdict since the early 1990s.

Managing partner of a firm, Aborn says there's more to the DA's job than recent courtroom experience.

"In all due respect, that is really a narrow view of what the job of the DA is," he said. "It's a much more expanded view. This is the premier DA's office in the country."

Aborn was also the only one to announce openness to legalizing marijuana for medicinal and non-medicinal purposes.

When charges against Eliot Spitzer was raised, Crocker Snyder was most forceful on the need to go after johns in prostitution cases.

With no possible run-off, and no Republican in the race, Tuesday's primary effectively decides who will be the next Manhattan District Attorney.