Brauchler took the advice, and, after earning degrees in economics and political science, remained in Boulder and enrolled in the University of Colorado Law School. A trial advocacy class during his second year of law school provided him with his first experience delivering opening and closing arguments and the rest, as they say, is history. The following year Brauchler interned with a District Attorney’s Office in the First Judicial District, managing to try eight cases while still a student, and confirming that he had found his calling.
Brauchler is currently serving as the district attorney for the 18th Judicial District , the largest judicial district in the state with more than 930,000 residents in Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, and Lincoln Counties. A veteran litigator, Brauchler has taken more than 140 trials to verdict in state, federal, and military court over the past eighteen years, including several of the state’s most publicized cases. In addition, he has also been a regular adjunct faculty member of the University of Denver College of Law, Colorado Law, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy JAG Schools, earning a reputation as one of the most prolific lecturers and trainers on trial advocacy in the nation.
Brauchler ultimately left the DA's Office in July 2006 and went into private practice where he helped build the Denver office of Feldman Nagel, LLC from only himself to five attorneys and three support staff, before being called back to active duty and deployed to Iraq in 2010. While he has been an Army Reservist since 1996, he has served on active duty during two mobilizations since 9/11, and upon returning from his most recent deployment in October 2011, he ran for and was elected to his current office in 2012.
Brauchler, who is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, has served as Chief of Military Justice for Fort Carson, and with the 4th Infantry Division and the U.S. Division-North in Iraq.
She chose to squander that opportunity. She will pay the consequences.”. According to the Colorado courts website, Gunkel was appointed as a judge in 2010.
She had a blood-alcohol level of 0.137 when she was arrested by the Prowers County Sheriff’s Office on Jan. 14, 2018. As part of Gunkel's 2018 plea agreement, the DUI conviction would be erased if she successfully completed two years of probation, according to the DA's office.
Debra Gunkel, 62, was arrested on Aug. 17, 2019, in Kansas, the release says. At the time of her arrest, she was on probation for a 2018 DUI conviction. In that case, she pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Prowers County, Colorado. She had a blood-alcohol level of 0.137 when she was arrested by the Prowers County Sheriff’s Office on ...
Gunkel pleaded guilty on May 7 to violating the terms of that probation. The DA news release said she is expected to plead guilty to the Kansas DUI case in June and jail time will be mandatory. “No one is above the law – not law enforcement, not elected officials, not prosecutors and not judges,” said District Attorney George Brauchler. ...
BACA COUNTY, Colo. — A judge in southeast Colorado will be facing a mandatory jail sentence after she was arrested for DUI for the second time in two years, a news release from the District Attorney's (DA) Office for the 18th Judicial District says.
The Baca County judge will receive a mandatory jail sentence for the DUI , according to the DA's office. BACA COUNTY, Colo.