Lynn Turner

Long before she stood accused of murder, Julia "Lynn" Womack Turner once worked on the other side of the law in the Forsyth County District Attorney's office and as a 911 operator for the Cobb County Police Department.

She would meet her husband, Maurice "Glenn" Turner, a Cobb County police officer, through her stint as an emergency operator. The two married but it wasn't long before she took up with another law enforcement officer, Randy Thompson, a sheriff's deputy in Forsyth County.

Now 36, Lynn Turner has been a widow, the mother of two Thompson's two children, facing life in prison if convicted of murdering her husband and suspected in the death of her late boyfriend.

Glenn Turner

Maurice "Glenn" Turner married his wife in August 1993, but would not live to see his second anniversary. On March 3, 1995, he was found dead in the couple's Marietta, Ga., home, at age 31. The medical examiner would initially determine his cause of death to be from a heart irregularity.

Turner was said to be a good provider, working two jobs and taking out extra insurance coverage for Lynn Turner in the event of his death.

But according to prosecutors, Lynn Turner wasn't exactly a loving wife. They say she was already having an affair with a sheriff's deputy from another county.

Randy Thompson

According to his family, Randy Thompson thought Lynn Turner was divorced, not still married. When he moved into an apartment with her, it was four days after Glenn Turner's funeral.

They never married but bought a home and had two children together. Thompson named his girlfriend as the recipient of his life insurance policies and retirement accounts upon his death.

When Thompson died on Jan. 22, 2001, at age 32, the coincidence ultimately prompted investigators to re-examine the bodies of both men struck down in their prime.

Prosecutors say both men not only had Lynn Turner in common, but shared another disturbing common bond: a chemical found in their blood that is used in antifreeze. Though Lynn Turner was charged in her husband's alleged murder, she has not been charged in Thompson's death.

Jimmy D. Berry

Veteran Georgia defense lawyer Jimmy Berry has been practicing law for 33 years and is well-known for his work on death penalty cases. He has tried more than 20 capital cases, and no client he has represented has ever received a death penalty verdict.

Court TV viewers may remember him as one of the lawyers who represented Fred Tokars, a lawyer who was convicted in the contract killing of his wife. At the conclusion of the two-month trial, the jury opted for a life sentence over the death penalty.

D. Victor "Vic" Reynolds

Berry's law partner, Vic Reynolds, also has a long career in law, though he started his career as a police officer in Rome, Ga. Reynolds once served as a prosecutor in Fulton and Cobb counties and is a former magistrate judge. He left the bench several years ago to return to practicing criminal law, this time as a defense lawyer alongside Jimmy Berry.

Pat Head

Cobb County District Attorney since 1998, Pat Head had been in private practice doing civil and criminal work prior to his election.

He earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering technology management in from Southern Tech (now Southern Polytechnic University) in 1974 and received his law degree from Woodrow Wilson College of Law. Head served as the Solicitor General of the State Court of Cobb County for eight years.

He has assigned two of his assistant prosecutors, Russ Parker and Bryan Lumpkin, to the case.

Jack Mallard

Jack Mallard came out of retirement to act as Forsyth County District Attorney Pro Tem in the Turner trial. Because Lynn Turner once worked for the District Attorney's office in Forsyth County — the county where Randy Thompson died — the office recused itself to avoid a conflict of interest and appointed Mallard to present evidence having to do with Randy Thompson's death.

Mallard is known for prosecuting serial killer Wayne Williams in the 1980s. He also was involved in prosecuting the Tokars trial. He attended John Marshall School of Law and was admitted to practice law in 1966.

Judge James G. "Jim" Bodiford

Superior Court Judge Bodiford has served in his current position since first being elected in 1994. Prior to that, he was Cobb County's chief magistrate judge and has been on the bench since 1985.

The Marietta, Ga., native earned his undergraduate degree from Mercer University before going to John Marshall Law School. He began his law career in private practice, later serving as a prosecutor in the Cobb County District Attorney's office.

This isn't the first time Judge Bodiford has presided over a high profile trial nor the first time he has been in a courtroom with Jimmy Berry. Judge Bodiford presided over the Fred Tokars trial.