WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The indictment of Former President Donald Trump for interfering in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia will be the biggest case of prosecutor Fani Willis' career, but it will not be her first contentious prosecution.
“She’s not afraid of big cases,” said Gerald Griggs, a criminal defense attorney and president of the Georgia state conference of the NAACP.
Willis worked from 2001 to 2018 in the Fulton County prosecutor's office, then won election as county prosecutor in 2020, defeating her former boss, Paul Howard.
Willis campaigned on building leniency programs for some low-level offenders, but also adopted a hard line on violent crime and gang activity.
“Anybody that thinks they can unleash insults from a podium and that’s going to shake Fani Willis is sorely mistaken."
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