Judge orders prosecution to release documents in Barry Morphew murder case
The new judge presiding over Barry Morphew's murder case on Monday ordered the prosecution to turn over all police reports and videos from the 20-month-long investigation to the defense.
Morphew's attorneys argued during the first day of a two-day hearing that the prosecution has not handed over evidence in a timely manner.
11th Judicial District Judge Ramsey Lama also said prosecutors must turn over any internal affairs and resignation materials involving a Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent who stepped down after a dicey evidence hearing in August.
According to information divulged in court hearings, the glove box DNA was a mixed partial profile of three people, including Suzanne Morphew, one of the Morphew daughters and a third profile, which has markers similar to three profiles found in three sex assault cases in Arizona and Chicago through the Combined DNA Index System.
It's unclear to whom the profiles belong, whether there is enough of a profile to identify a close match or whether the profiles have been thoroughly investigated. The defense team said Barry Morphew's DNA has been excluded from the glove box sample; however, the touch profile was not found anywhere else but on the glove box.