EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY
LISA DAVIS
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ADA Davis graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1999. She began her legal career in 2000 as an Assistant District Attorney with the Bronx District Attorney's Office, where she held numerous position as a prosecutor in the Criminal Court, Grand Jury Evaluations, Narcotics Bureau, and Gang/Major Case Bureaus. .
During her time in the Bronx, she prosecuted hundreds of cases, including numerous high-profile cases and long-term investigations, while assigned to the Gang/Major Case Bureau.
When ADA Davis joined the Richmond County District Attorney's Office as an Assistant District Attorney, she was assigned to the Trial Bureau, where she continues to prosecute complex felony cases from indictment through disposition.
Examples of some of her successful homicide prosecutions on Staten Island include:
• People v. Michael Sykes -the defendant was found guilty of two counts of Murder in the First Degree, one count of Murder in the Second Degree, and one count of Attempted Murder·in the First Degree, for the homicides of his girlfriend, their 4 month old daughter, his girlfriend's 1½ year old daughter, as well as the attempted murder of his girlfriend's 2½ year old daughter.
• People v. Keith Jackson - the defendant was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.
• People v. Anthony Morales - the defendant was convicted of two counts of Murder in the First Degree for the homicides of his neighbors, and one count of Murder in the Second Degree for the attempted murder of a third individual.
• People v Ricky Dennis - the defendant was convicted of two counts of Murder in the First Degree for the double homicide of his former boss Michael Genovese, and his former manager, Carl Clarke, inside Universal Merchant Funding.
• People v Anthony Morales - defendant pied guilty to two counts of Murder in the First Degree for the homicides of his neighbors Idelle and Anthony Rivera (mother and son) and one count of Murder in the Second Degree for the attempted murder of Jose Ramirez.
• People v Mark Ortiz - the defendant was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree, and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, as a result of the murder of his former friend, Barry Lovelace.







