^^rsbm
Brilliant summary
@10ofRods, and thank you!
IMO, I'm convinced that it has to be criminal attorneys from across the nation working as a united force with the common goal of preventing the adoption of an educated and/or textbook summary explaining partial profile DNA evidence applicable to this case.
Instead, only weeks after the conclusion of BM's multi-day preliminary hearing in Sept 2021, and BM bound over for trial, his defense wasted no time putting investigators, authorities, and prosecutors on notice of BM's intent to sue for purposefully keeping the identity of a sex offender tied to evidence collected in SM's murder case, more specifically, glovebox DNA evidence excluding BM.
And BM made good on his notice on May 2, 2023, when he filed a $15M Civil Suit in the US District Court of Colorado.
My question to you is how can this subject partial DNA on the glove box represent a credible suspect? Never mind that BM had the motive, means, and opportunity to murder his wife!
Legal papers sent this week allege prosecutors purposefully kept the identity of a sex offender tied to evidence in a Chaffee County killing from murder suspect Barry Morphew’s defense team.
denvergazette.com
10/19/21
Legal papers sent this week allege prosecutors purposefully kept the identity of a sex offender tied to evidence in a Chaffee County killing from murder suspect Barry Morphew’s defense team.
The move comes after a lengthy evidence hearing led to a judge ruling Morphew should stand trial in the death of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, who was reported missing on Mother's Day 2020.
The attorneys allege deputies and prosecutors withheld the identity of a person tied to DNA found on the glovebox of Suzanne Morphew’s Ranger Rover.
A national database of DNA samples taken from inmates showed the DNA was linked to a sex offender who now lives in Arizona, according to the notice of intent to sue filed by the law firm of Fisher and Byrialsen based out of Denver and New York City.
The document contends police didn't chase the DNA lead and look for other possible killers before focusing on Morphew.
The documents filed by Morphew allege new information regarding male DNA found in the Range Rover, saying it was a possible match to a serial sex offender in Arizona.
Morphew’s civil attorneys say investigators knew the man’s identity as early as Aug. 2, a week before the evidence hearing in the murder case. The 10-page document says prosecutors waited until Morphew was ordered to trial before they released it to his defense team. In doing this, Morphew's attorneys contend, prosecutors “conspired to commit a fraud upon the court by withholding exculpatory evidence.”
The DNA issue did come up during Morphew's August evidence hearing. Colorado Bureau of Investigations agent Joe Cahill told Morphew attorney Iris Eytan that the DNA on the glove box is a partial profile.
“It’s Ramsey all over again,” said Grant, who was one of several prosecutors who gave advice in the unsolved 1996 killing of JonBenet Ramsey. “The prosecution will have to contend with the DNA. It makes this case really tough because this DNA found on the glovebox represents a somewhat credible suspect.”
