The office is composed of approximately 75 attorneys and 125 support staff, who as a whole are responsible for more than 6,000 felony and 17,000 misdemeanor prosecutions annually.
Robert Wilbur Steele, a member of a prominent pioneer Colorado family, served as District Attorney from 1892 to 1894.
Masterson subsequently moved to New York City where he gained fame as a boxing promoter and star of dime store novels about western lawmen.
Known as "The Colonel", he used military tactics to bring down gangster Lou Blonger, "The Fixer", and his "Million Dollar Bunco Ring".
[13] Denver District Attorney Mike McKevitt, who gained a reputation for prosecuting "hippies" in the 1960s, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1970 but was defeated after one term.
Keating personally handled the prosecution and successfully obtained a confession, conviction and ultimately a death sentence for the defendant.
These are: The Special Programs Unit oversees programs such as: In 2010, the Colorado Attorney General's Office partnered with the Denver District Attorney's Office in establishing the Justice Review Project, an ongoing federally funded effort to review post-conviction cases of forcible rape, murder, and non-negligent manslaughter to determine whether biological evidence may exist that might, through DNA analysis, demonstrate actual innocence.
The lessons learned were in turn applied to creating a more efficient system for post-conviction review, including locating and determining the condition of evidence in cases early on, not holding defendants accountable for the actions of their trial attorneys, and instituting a defendant-initiated application process.
While the hypothesis was strong, the results were astounding: In 2005, the Denver Police Department Crime Laboratory and Denver District Attorney's Office were selected by the National Institute of Justice as one of five sites to study the impact of DNA technology and the CODIS database on high volume crimes.
To date Denver leads all of the sites in terms of CODIS hits and case filings to the District Attorney's Office.