Eric Smith rose through the ranks of the Prosecutor's Office, starting his career there in 1993. He would eventually serve as senior trial attorney, chief of the sex crimes unit and chief assistant prosecutor.'Eric Smith’ served as an American attorney and as the former Prosecuting Attorney of Macomb County, Michigan from 2004, then re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Smith gained national notoriety in 2007 due to the Tara Grant murder case, a case that Smith personally prosecuted. Grant was strangled to death and eventually dismembered by her husband, Stephen Grant. Stephen Grant was convicted of second degree murder in December 2007 and was sentenced to 50 – 80 years in prison.He resigned in 2020.