Carlos A. Samour Jr. became a district court judge in 2007 after working as a private defense attorney, then a Denver prosecutor. Tamara Brady and Daniel King are chief trial deputies for the state public defender office and handle death penalty cases like this one. Brady represented a man who killed his girlfriend by dragging her behind a car with a tow strap around her neck. Brauchler graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder's law school, then joined the U.S.