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The prosecution is now in the hands of a new district attorney.
Linda Stanley, the prosecutor who oversaw Barry Morphew’s arrest in May 2021, was disbarred after a two-week disciplinary hearing.
In an 83-page ruling, the state office that regulates attorney behavior said that Stanley "did not adequately supervise prosecution of the case," made multiple extrajudicial statements to the media about the murder, which threatened to prejudice Morphew, and investigated the district judge presiding over the case without credible evidence to do so.
Three of the four counties in the 11th Judicial District — Fremont, Chaffee and Custer — filed a lawsuit against Stanley earlier this month, asking a judge to force her to return nearly $112,000 of taxpayers' money that she used to pay her legal fees.
Suzanne Morphew’s family hopes that 2025 would bring an arrest in the murder case, which seemed doomed when it was dismissed in April 2023.
denvergazette.com