‘True Conviction’ With Superstar Prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi Back On ID
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi knows how to spot and prosecute bad people. ID’s superstar prosecutor has a terrific true-crime series, True Conviction, that shows how hard a prosecutor’s job is and the dangers that come with it.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is a former prosecutor for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, one of the country’s most prominent offices. Before she left back in 2017, she was Chief of Trials for the Homicide Bureau. Nicolazzi was a crucial player in the Homicide Bureau, where she specialized in complex cases for 16 of her 21-years in office as she tried over 50 felony cases, including 35 homicide cases.
In the last in-person IDCon in New York City, Nicolazzi shared a hair-raising moment to the audience about a near-death moment in court.
More on that story after the jump.
About the returning series, True Conviction
ID’s hit series True Conviction stars Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi premieres this coming Tuesday, March 8th. Each episode explores the true stories of how homicides are solved on the street but won in the courtroom.
And Brooklyn homicide prosecutor Nicolazzi knows the ropes and has fought battles to get bad people to be put away for good.
Viewers are along for the ride as she travels across the country to reveal how the nation’s top prosecutors tackled their most complex cases. The series relives the crime with the detectives on the scene and with those left behind.
Nicolazzi shows the byzantine route of justice from crime to verdict.
Nicolazzi shared a near-death experience in court.
At the last in-person IDCon in New York back in 2018, Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi spoke of a near-death moment in court from murder suspects Kayson Pearson and Troy Hendrix.
She spoke to the audience and relived that one of the murder suspects had a shiv, a homemade knife concealed, and was prepared to use it on everyone in the courtroom who got in his way, including Nicolazzi.
She said: “And as they started to walk out of the courtroom, there was all of a sudden a commotion… and then the two defendants, one of them had brought in a homemade shiv, which is a homemade weapon they make in jail sometimes out of metal that they get. He had stabbed his lawyer in the neck. The other one had jumped. He was over six feet tall. It was Kayson Pearson and Troy Hendrix.”
Noting the physical advantage of the murderers, she added: “He was about six foot five, give or take an inch. He had literally taken his foot and jumped over the table into the well where the court officers were in New York. There’s one court officer that has a gun only in the courtroom, and he had gone to get his gun.”
The event happened so fast, but fortunately, many law enforcement officers were there to act. She said: “All of this happened in seconds, but it seemed like time stopped, and things I most remember after that is that because of the cousin of this young woman who I didn’t know at all, I’d seen him. I’d met him, and he was a young man, maybe 20. He jumped into the well and stood in front of me to protect me because he knew what they were going to try to do. I’ll never forget it because I didn’t know him at all.”
The new series is back with a senseless teen murder
The season premiere follows the case of Jacob Craggett, a 15-year-old high school athlete. He was tragically killed in August 2014 when he was trying to save his brother in a shooting near his grandmother’s home in New Haven, Connecticut.
His senseless murder brings back a brutal memory for the Craggetts, who lost another beloved relative to gun violence ten years earlier on the very same block.
Now the family barely copes with extreme anger and guilt, as a New Haven Police investigator attempts to track down Jacob’s killer.
Upcoming episodes from ID
Tuesday, 3/15 at 10p “Panic on the Parkway.”
Nassau County, Long Island, sees a policeman and an innocent motorist are murdered on a major highway.
Tuesday, 3/22 at 10p “The Final Heartbeat.”
Michaela MacVilla is murdered, but why? Her disappearance brings investigators to the world of digital forensics.
Tuesday, 3/29 at 10p “The Loss of Innocence.”
Sadly 12-year-old Naomi Jones goes missing, and worst fears are confirmed. Her murderers are sought and brought to justice.
Tuesday, 4/5 at 10p “Life is a Battlefield.”
In December of 2015, darkness falls on San Antonio, Texas, when the life of Army Veteran Jesse Richards ends in a senseless murder.
True Conviction airs Tuesday, beginning March 8th at 10 pm ET/CT on ID.
