According to the Broward Public Defender’s Office, in 38 death penalty cases tried in the county since 1994, the average time from arrest to trial was 52 months. The figure is skewed somewhat by two of the lengthiest death cases in Broward history — the 2001 murder of Miami Subs founder Gus Boulis in Fort Lauderdale, which took eight years to bring to a jury (from the time of the defendants’ arrest), and the 2006 murder of Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Tephford, which took 10 years.