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Ex-Brooklyn prosecutor finds ‘True Conviction’ in new series

ANNA-Sigga Nicolazzi never lost a case in her 21 years as a prosecutor for the Brooklyn DA — so it’s no surprise that her 35-0 courtroom conviction record factors into the title of her new true crime ID series.

“This is what I always had in my head,” Nicolazzi says about “True Convic

tion,” the six-episode series which gets a Jan. 1 sneak peek before its “official” launch (Jan. 16). “I didn’t want it to be about me and my cases,” she says. “I wanted to highlight my colleagues around the country ... to see these cases from the different angle of the prosecutor, who’s really involved in the case from the beginning to the end and who works very closely with the police in the investigative stages.

“What you see so much today is a spotlight on law enforcement; a lot of it is negative, and some of it is warranted,” she says. “But I also feel that, by and large, most of these people are good people doing fantastic work and making a whole lot less money than they could in other places.”

In the Jan. 1 opener, “A Match to Murder,” Nicolazzi delves into two separate murder cases that occurred in March 2000, thousands of miles apart and seemingly unrelated — a homicide in Wisconsin and the double-murder of a grandmother and her daughter in Florida. Nicolazzi travels to both states, visiting the crime scenes and interviewing the dogged prosecutor and law-enforcement officials who eventually brought the murderer to justice. “We’re traveling around the country to highlight their work, whether it’s in a small town or a large city,” she says. “We literally go to the home of a family member or the prosecutor’s office or to the courthouse where they tried the case ... and I just sit down and talk to these people. It was really important to me that we highlight the real work of prosecutors ... it’s not always justice in a way we think of it, in a straight line ... and certainly that’s not what the end result will bbe in many of these cases.”

Nicolazzi, who left the DA’s office last March, says she’s been thinking about hosting this type of show for quite some time. “I never wanted to do anything else but be a prosecutor,” she says. “People would say, ‘What about being a defense attorney? Going into corporate?’ No, I can’t do that ... these jobs take a lot out of you and I knew there was something else out there. This is a fun way to keep up with a topic I’m very passionate about and comfortable with.

“I started doing a lot of [TV] network analysis on various cases around the country and I liked it,” she says. “I’d talked with ID for years and I did another show for them briefly [2015’s ‘ Did He Do It?’ which she co-hosted with defense attorney Darren Kavinoky]. For this show and all the traveling, I couldn’t have given my role as a prosecutor what it deserved. It was time to go and everything just matched up.”

Still, Nicolazzi says she’s particularly haunted by one case she prosecuted during her 21-year career: the 2003 murder of Hunter College student Romona Moore (her killers are both serving life in prison). “That’s one I’ve never been able to get past, the brutality that humans can inflict on one another,” she says. “These two young men abducted [Romona] off the street and proceeded to brutalize her and sexually assault her. It was horrendous. It’s always hard to wrap my head around this one. In my wildest nightmares I just could not imagine people doing these things to another human being.”