One of the state’s top former law enforcement officers testified Friday that comments made by 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley during a television interview about two murder suspects she was prosecuting, including Barry Morphew, were the worst he's ever seen.
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Stanley's attorney Steve Jensen explained that she understood that she was off-the-record when she made the comments, but reporters said that she had a microphone on and should have known she was being recorded.
The order granting the motion to dismiss was filed by Fremont County District Court Judge Kaitlin Turner. Turner has been present listening to testimony in the gallery of the courtroom but is not scheduled to testify at Stanley's hearing.
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In addition to the Fremont County case, Suthers was also asked about extra-judicial statements made by Stanley as lead prosecutor in Barry Morphew's murder case: First when he was arrested on May 5, 2021, and then on a national podcast after the evidentiary hearing.
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Suthers said that he is being paid $250 dollars an hour with a cap of $5,000 to testify.
Also testifying Friday was Stan Garnett, former Boulder District Attorney, and Grant Grosgebauer, a prosecutor who was borrowed from the 18th Judicial District to help in the month leading up to the oncoming trial. He described those last tumultuous weeks as “a snowball that kept rolling down the hill.”
Grosgebauer said that Morphew's attorney, Iris Eytan, whom he described as "fierce," made prosecutors' lives difficult in the month-and-a-half before trial by filing motions which he felt were stretching a prosecution team which was outmanned.
“The defense had three full-time lawyers and six paralegals, plus investigators. They were filing every motion they could file but they were hammering the case” said Grosgebauer.
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Grosgebauer, who got out of the prosecution business partly he said because of how difficult it has become to do that kind of work, is now a defense attorney in private practice. He told a three-person panel overseeing the hearing that it felt like former 11th Judicial District Judge Ramsey Lama treated the prosecution and the defense differently, particularly when he struck 13 of 16 district attorney witnesses as sanctions on the eve of trial, because the prosecution had engaged in “consistent” discovery violations, missing "already extended deadlines" for data involving the witnesses.
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Grosgebauer countered that this was not true, and that Lama’s ruling was "really quick," based on the word of the defense, which was filing motions, he felt, for the sake of keeping the prosecution on its heels.
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