Rick A Unklesbay
began as a prosecutor in 1981 with the Pima County Attorney's Office and retired in 2021. In that time he has served as a deputy county attorney, supervisor of violent crimes, Chief Trial Counsel and Chief Criminal Deputy. Currently he runs a program in the office called the Conviction Integrity Unit in which claims of innocence are evaluated and resolved. In his career Mr. Unklesbay has tried over 100 first degree murder cases to jury including more than 20 that were tried as death penalty cases.