former suspect's public defender

David Kaplan was the one time Boulder public defender appointed to indigent Karr after his 2006 false confession of JonBenet's murder. Kaplan has since been practicing with Haddon, Morgan, Mueller, Jordan, Mackey & Foreman, P.C., a high profile Denver law firm whose attorneys have also been associated in the past with the Ramsey family--

Triple homicide trial begins
CNN by Carolyn Purcell
March 18, 2009

"ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico–In Session’s new live trial, the State of New Mexico versus Brandon Craig, is a murder mystery for the community of Albuquerque that has never been solved.

...also representing Craig is David Kaplan, who was Colorado’s state public defender from 2000 to 2006. His office defended John Mark Karr, arrested in 2006 for the death of JonBenet Ramsey. Ultimately formal charges were never brought against Karr..."