They are State Senator John Sampson ; Sandra Roper , a civil rights attorney who has worked for the N.A.A.C.P . ; Paul Wooten , a lawyer who is in private practice and once served as an assistant district attorney ; Arnold Kriss , a former assistant district attorney and a former lawyer for the Police Department ; and Braxton F. Fenner , a trial lawyer and a former Brooklyn prosecutor ; and Mark G. Peters , a former prosecutor in the state attorney general 's office .