ATLANTA — Fani T. Willis strode up to a podium in a red dress last year in downtown Atlanta, flanked by an array of dark suits and stone-faced officers in uniform.
“If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong,” she said, facing a bank of news cameras.
“And you are going to suffer consequences.”Ms Willis is the first Black woman to lead Georgia’s largest district attorney’s office.
In her 19 years as a prosecutor, she has led more than 100 jury trials and handled hundreds of murder cases.
Since she became chief prosecutor, her office’s conviction rate has stood at close to 90 percent, according to a spokesperson.
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