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Mr. Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA and a Juris Doctorate Degree from Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University. He was admitted to the Bar in 1988.
Mr. Grace joined the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in 1988 and the Hardcore Gang Division in 1991. While in the Hardcore Gang Division, he prosecuted over thirty homicide cases.
During his career, Mr. Grace has prosecuted several high profile cases including the 1991 Taxi Cab Murder. He served as co-prosecutor of the Snoop Doggy Dogg murder case and as prosecutor of the 1994 attempted murder of a Dorsey High School student on the first day of class. In addition, he was prosecutor of the 1992 slaying of a Long Beach man on the first day of civil unrest following the first Rodney King trial. Recently, Mr. Grace served as co-prosecutor in the Chester Dewayne Turner murder trial. Turner received the death sentence for raping and killing 10 Los Angeles area women (one of whom was pregnant) between 1987-1988.
Mr. Grace has garnered wide recognition for his work. He received the District Attorney of the Month Award in May of 1994 and 1996 and received the Special Community Service Award for successful prosecution in the 1998 Corie Williams case. He has been spotlighted in several magazine and newspaper articles including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek.
He was elected to the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee in 1996.
Mr. Grace has served as president of the UCLA Black Alumni Association and as a member of the UCLA Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (WYSE) board of directors.
