Craig Silverman Show, George Brauchler, August 8, 2015
Station: KNUS, 710 AM
Show: Craig Silverman Show
Guests: Brauchler
Link: http://craigsilverman.podbean.com/
Date: August 8, 2015
Topics: Representative Rhonda Fields, Death Penatly, Capital Punishment,
ARAPAHOE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, GEORGE BRAUCHLER: There is something that sticks out to me that I find completely unusual, and that is, at no time during the pendency of this case have the ever reached out to me. In fact, I had people call them throughout the pendency of this case, and they continued to hide behind an attorney. And while I get there are legal reasons for them to maybe not talk, but as a parent myself, and I’d ask anybody listening to this, if your son or daughter was facing the potential of a death penalty, what could stop you from calling the DA and saying, ‘Please, God, don’t kill my son or my daughter.’ Instead, they went to The Post and did an op-ed piece coincidentally timed with three days after the juror summonses went out. And then mom published a book of thoughts—or whatever they were—calling into question, of course, our motives, and saying a bunch of things about mental illness coincidentally timed with the middle of jury selection, right before opening statements. I mean, again, they are not at fault for what happened here, but I can’t, as a parent, envision taking the path that they took.
HOST CRAIG SILVERMAN: Bob and Arlene [the murderer’s parents] were in the courtroom. I imagine they were following the instructions of the public defenders, their son’s attorneys.
