Kym Loren Worthy (born December 5, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan since 2004.
Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Detroit police officers Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of motorist Malice Green.
[5] In 2009, Worthy began working on resolving a massive backlog of unprocessed rape test kits in Detroit, despite previous years of refusal to even allow assistant prosecutors to look for them for over a decade.
[6][7] On August 17, 2009, assistant prosecutor Robert Spada discovered a massive number of kits sitting in a warehouse that the Detroit Police Department had used as an overflow storage facility for evidence.
As the City of Detroit was in bankruptcy and then-Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano would not provide funding for the project, Worthy turned to the Detroit Crime Commission, Michigan Women's First Foundation and the African-American 490 Coalition to form a public-private partnership to raise funds to test the kits.
The project received grants and funding from the National Institute for Justice, the State of Michigan and the New York District Attorneys Office.
An important academic study of the project was authored by Michigan State University Professor Rebecca Campbell.
In September 2015, Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway ruled that Wershe's life sentence was unconstitutional and that he should be re-sentenced.
Worthy claimed she objected because Wershe was charged and convicted of operating a car theft ring in Florida when he was in prison there.