"Kym L. Worthy" (1957) is the current prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detroit. She is the second African-American to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan, the first one being Stuart Dunnings III in Ingham County, Michigan which includes Lansing. She has received a large amount of notice since filing charges against list of mayors of Detroit/Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008, however this is only one of many cases her office has been involved in.

Worthy received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from the University of Notre Dame. She attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia and is a 1974 graduate of T.C. Williams High School.

Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in Wayne County in 1984. She served in this position for ten years, trying over 800 cases. The most notable was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green. Among the cases Worthy had go to trial her conviction rate was over 90%.[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-14680137.html Detroit's dramatic prosecutor. (Kym Worthy, lawyer in Malice Green police brutality case) - Ebony / Encyclopedia.com] From 1994- January 2004 Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court.

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Murder for hire takes time and planning to carry out. That's why it took time to solve this case. This is one of the most vicious crimes because a totally innocent victim was killed purely for personal gain.

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Our investigation in this case is far from over.

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Our investigation in this case is far from over. As Ghandi said: 'An eye for an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.' I am making a personal plea to the public to let the legal process take course. We do not want people taking the law into their own hands. The worse thing that could happen now would be to compound this situation by having anymore senseless deaths.

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