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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colleen Slevin

Lawyers for missing woman's husband want DA to be punished

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lawyers for a Colorado man once charged with murder and still considered a suspect in the presumed death of his missing wife are asking for prosecutors to be disciplined for what they called intentionally withholding evidence in a bid to convict him.

Barry Morphew's lawyers allege in a complaint made public Tuesday that District Attorney Linda Stanley and six prosecutors in her office pursued “a political agenda of locking up Mr. Morphew in response to a media frenzy that prosecutors themselves helped create" after the 2020 disappearance of Suzanne Morphew.

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