Boulder’s incoming district attorney announced today that two of his colleagues at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck will be coming with him, along with the lead prosecutor in the death-penalty case of Jose Rubi-Nava in Douglas County.
Stan Garnett will become Boulder’s new DA in January, as he is unopposed in the election. Garnett said in a statement that Ryan Brackley, a former prosecutor in Manhattan, will be his first assistant district attorney.
Brackley served for 14 years as an assistant DA for New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. There, he was criminal-court supervisor and deputy bureau chief in the trial division.
Since coming to Colorado in 2005, Brackley has worked with the Colorado Attorney General’s capital-crimes unit, including the Rubi-Nava case.
Garnett named as his assistant district attorney Christopher Zenisek, also lawyer at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
Zenisek worked a two-year clerkship for U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock and graduated first in his class of 243 students from the University of Denver School of Law.
Garnett named an ABA-certified paralegal at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Catherine Olguin, as his administrative deputy.
She has a degree in sociology from the State University of New York-Buffalo and a master’s degree in speech communications from Pennsylvania State University. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, she was a victim advocate and community educator in New York and Pennsylvania.
“It is a tribute to the reputation of the office that so many well-credentialed people have approached me to express an interest in joining the fine staff of the Boulder DA’s office,” said Garnett. “I know the addition of these three individuals will bring a good mix of experience, new perspectives and leadership.”
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
