Gerald M. Byers

Gerald M. Byers currently serves as the Chief Deputy District Attorney for the Third Judicial District Attorneys Office in Dona Ana County New Mexico; the second largest District Attorneys Office in the state. Gerald is a career prosecutor with over 23 years of experience prosecuting cases ranging from DWI to Capital Murder. Gerald Byers is the son of a career U. S. Air Force NCO, and in 1976 graduated from High School in Wichita Falls Texas. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1980 and received his Naval Officers Commission. He was later assigned to a surface combatant unit and deployed as a member of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force, Beirut Lebanon from 1983 to 1984. In coordination with other units of that force, including the battleship USS New Jersey, Gerald participated in the evacuation of American non-combatants from Beirut Lebanon. Geralds legal experience started when he supervised the Military Police Division at Naval Air Station Chase Field, Beeville Texas in 1989. During that assignment Gerald also earned a Master of Arts in Management and Business. Additionally, he assisted the U. S. Secret Service and provided support for President George H. W. Bushs arrival, motorcade, departure, and White House traveling support equipment at the same time that the U. S. military was engaged in Operation Just Cause in Panama. Honorably discharged from the U. S. Navy in 1992, Gerald entered the University of New Mexico School of Law that year. After receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1995, Gerald began his prosecuting career as an Assistant District Attorney in Gallup, New Mexico. In May 2000, Gerald accepted a position as a juvenile prosecutor in the Albuquerque District Attorneys Office prosecuting misdemeanor and felony level juvenile offenses. Shortly thereafter Gerald was promoted to the Albuquerque District Attorneys Offices Violent Crimes Division where he successfully prosecuted many (Project Safe Neighborhoods) gun crime cases, and high profile murder cases including the nationally infamous Sunshine Theater murder case; which involved the tragic death of a teenage girl at the hands of a homicidal sexual sociopath. In 2005 Gerald volunteered for assignment in the Albuquerque DAs Gang Crimes Division, gaining valuable experience in handling multiple co-defendant cases.