The prosecutor, dressed in a conservative white suit, stands before the jury box, making her opening argument, describing the brutal attacks as if to a friend. Her voice rises to an indignant roar while informing the jury that the final attack was committed after the defendant had been arrested and released on bond. Walking over to the defense table, she points toward the defendant with a pained expression.
Her combative ways and animated Southern belle style have won her few friends among defense attorneys, and many charge that her record is inflated because she drops any case that she could possibly lose.
Her occasional flamboyance also rubs some the wrong way; such as the time she called a drug sniffing dog as a witness in a cocaine trafficking case. Grace, who typically wears conservative suits and dresses to court, dismissed the motion as meaningless subterfuge.
She won yet another murder conviction. Although longtime district attorney Lewis Slaton, who is retiring this year, offers nothing but praise for his star litigator, many of his other attorneys privately express resentment of her. Some deride her as manipulative.
In addition to her gift for elocution in front of the jury—punctuated by carefully timed eye rolls and facial expressions that have become the bane of her opponents—Grace has succeeded because she has a keen understanding of trial strategy and because she prepares assiduously. Not content to stand on the investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies, she makes a point of interviewing all possible witnesses personally, sometimes trudging off to the worst sections of town during the middle of the night.
Three years after joining the department, in , she was handed the case that would make—and nearly break—her career. Despite winning a conviction in the drug-related gangland slaying of three Red Oak Housing Project youths in southwest Fulton County, the strain of the extremely violent case caused her to consider leaving the law.
It was all I could do to stand up in court every day looking at the autopsy photos. I thought long and hard about quitting after that. Three years later she faced one of her most difficult challenges in a case that evoked memories of her own tragedy.
In April Grace was driving to work early one morning when she heard the news that Patricia Carr had died after a fire in her house. The state alleged that Carr had burned his own house to the ground in order to murder his wife, but all it had was circumstantial evidence. The state also was able to prove that Carr had surreptitiously taped telephone conversations between his wife and her lover, suggesting a motive for the crime. I had him. During the trial Grace kept the cassette tapes that Carr made of his wife and her lover in her glove compartment.
Sometimes, when she was driving to Macon to see her parents or stuck in traffic on the Perimeter, she listened to the tapes and felt sad for Pat Carr. But she said no. About the same time Grace placed her name in consideration for a Fulton County superior judgeship, and although she made the short-list of candidates, she does not seem excited about the prospect of watching from the bench.
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