Williams

The local media has not been so kind, focusing instead on her occupation: Williams danced at the all-nude Little Darlings club near the Las Vegas Strip. Ron Nady, a manager at Little Darlings, told reporters Williams had danced under the name "Madison" from October 1999 until the accident.

"Williams was the kind of employee who customers liked," he said. "I always get customers who tell me how nice and polite she is and how good of a person she is," said Nady. "You just don't hear that very much."

Williams commuted 90 miles from her home in Littlefield, Ariz., but had told friends that she planned to move to Las Vegas in the near future.

Prosecutors found no previous criminal record on Williams, who has applied for indigent status to help pay her legal costs.

Williams made headlines while sharing a cell with other high-profile female alleged killers Sandy Murphy and Margaret Rudin. Rudin complained of "inappropriate conduct" between her two younger cellmates, who both previously worked as topless dancers, and the three were moved into separate cells.

Booth

Booth bought a dress to wear to her high school prom two weeks before her death. Instead, she wore that dress to her cremation.

Though she initially survived the impact, her family was told from the beginning there was no hope she would recover from her severe injuries. Still, they prayed for a miracle. The day after the wreck doctors broached the subject of turning off the life-support machines, but the family said they weren't ready to do that. Within two hours, Booth died, sparing them the decision of whether to end her life support.

The 16-year-old was on probation for possession of drug paraphernalia. The day of the accident was her first day of community service.

Scott Garner Jr.

Garner

Garner lived in Henderson, Nev., and attended Washington Opportunity School in North Las Vegas. Garner was sentenced to 40 hours of community service on the work crew after he served as a lookout during a burglary. It was his only prior offense. The community service would have cleared his juvenile record.

Garner's mother, Vicki Gould, says her son was an extremely social teen who was fascinated by dirt bikes and hoped to be a Navy Seal one day. Stepfather Doug Gould said, "It was the only trouble he was ever in, and he realized what he had done was wrong and he was paying for it… These kids ended up paying with their lives."

Rebeccah Glicken

Glicken

Glicken was a 10th-grader at Green Valley High School. A close friend told reporters that Glicken, 15, dreamed of going to college and starting her own cosmetology business. Her grandfather, Ken Glicken, said, "We've lost a very dear child who we can't possibly replace." Glicken's family is not speaking with reporters. The family has not disclosed exactly why Glicken was doing community service, saying only that she was "taking responsibility for something she had done."

Alberto Puig

Puig

Puig, 16, had minor delinquency problems before enrolling in Jefferson Opportunity School in North Las Vegas. So-called "opportunity schools" provide an alternative setting for youths who demonstrate behavioral problems at regular high schools. The week before the accident, Puig raised his grades high enough to enroll in a regular high school.

In a journal he completed at Jefferson, Puig wrote, "I will be the only one to ever finish school in my family out of my brother and sister. I have to finish to make my mom proud." Puig's mother came to the United States from Cuba in 1980. Here, she raised three children as a single mother who didn't speak English. Alberto Puig's older brother, Carlos, described him "as a happy person who wanted to have a regular life."

Puig had been through a six-month youth camp and paid restitution for stealing a car. He was working on the roadcrew to finish up his probation. The day he was killed was his final day of community service.

Anthony Smith

Smith

Smith, 14, was enrolled at Miley Achievement Center in Las Vegas. A local paper reported that Smith's mother Brigitte Smith had a verbal altercation with Williams' family at the arraignment. "That bitch should not have pleaded guilty," she allegedly told her son T.J. A member of Williams' family said something back, then bailiffs stepped in before any punches were thrown.

Brigitte Smith says her son had attention deficit disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and was manic depressive. Still, he was a loving child who enjoyed football and baseball and was showing promise as an artist. His mother says that, just before his death, he had decided to become an actor.

Smith was sentenced to 64 hours of community service for stealing a $24.90 model car. He was on his second to last day of community service when he was killed. His funeral was the following week on what should have been his final day of community service.

Maleyna Stoltzfus

Stoltzfus

Stoltzfus attended Centennial High School, where classmates remembered her as an extremely social, outgoing girl. Friends told reporters that the 15-year-old had little academic interest and hoped eventually to start her own punk rock band. "She was out there because she couldn't pay a fine for a curfew violation," Scott Morse, a freshman classmate at Centennial told reporters. "She died because she couldn't make curfew."

Gary Booker

Booker

Booker is the chief deputy district attorney in charge of the Vehicular Crimes Unit, which tries 60 misdemeanor DUI cases per week and has nearly 400 felony DUI cases pending. The scary thing, Booker says, is that the only difference between misdemeanor DUI and fatal DUI is "luck."

Booker received his law degree from California Western School of Law in 1981 and completed Judge Advocate General's School in 1982. He has been with the district attorney's office since 1988, before which he worked in private practice and as a judge advocate in the U.S. Army in Fort Riley, Kan.

Booker is a fourth-degree black belt in tae kwon do but has recently suffered knee problems that force him to use a cane. He is married and has three children.

James Hartsell

Hartsell

Hartsell has worked in the Clark County District Attorney's office since 1995, and in the Vehicular Crimes Unit for the past two years.

After earning a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, he worked in radio for a couple of years before pursuing a career in law. Hartsell attained his law degree at the University of Oklahoma City Law School in 1992. He worked in the district attorney's office in his hometown of Altus, Okla., for two years before moving to Las Vegas.

Watkins

Watkins has spoken at DUI seminars, the Las Vegas Metro Police Academy and the Public Defender's Office. Watkins has been in private practice since 1981. Before that, he spent two years as a deputy district attorney.

Watkins attended the University of Missouri before earning his law degree at the University of St. Louis in 1980. He is a licensed pilot and a former Nevada State Horseshoe Champion.

Gibbons

In a 1998 Las Vegas Review Journal survey, Gibbons received a 97% recommended retention rating, the highest rating of any district judge in the history of the survey. In the 2000 Las Vegas Review Journal survey, Gibbons received a 93% recommended retention rating, the highest rating for any district judge of the criminal division.

Gibbons attended the University of California at Irvine. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1972 and continued his education at Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles. He received his law degree in 1975.