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   The district attorney who brought and then dropped a murder case against   
   Barry Morphew in the Mother’s Day 2020 disappearance and death of his wife   
   Suzanne Morphew asked her chief investigator to dig up dirt on the divorce   
   of a judge who presided over the failed case, an explosive complaint filed   
   by the Colorado Supreme Court’s independent attorney regulatory body   
   alleged.   
      
   The complaint filed Monday against 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda   
   Stanley, who handles cases in Chaffee County, Custer County, Fremont   
   County, and Park County, listed seven total claims that the DA violated   
   the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct — the first five of which   
   relate to the Morphew case.   
      
   The identified rules — “A Lawyer Shall Act with Reasonable Diligence and   
   Promptness — Colo. RPC 1.3,” “Pretrial Publicity — Colo. RPC 3.6(a),”   
   “Prosecutor’s Extrajudicial Comments — Colo. RPC 3.8(f),”   
   “Responsibilities of Supervisory Lawyer — Colo. RPC 5.1(a) and (b),” and   
   “Attempt to Violate the Rules of Professional Conduct and Conduct   
   Prejudicial to the Administration of Justice — Colo. RPC 8.4(a) and Colo.   
   RPC 8.4(d)” — collectively painted a picture of Stanley botching the   
   Morphew prosecution by withholding exculpatory evidence, impermissibly   
   talking about the case on the YouTube channel “Profiling Evil” and in   
   Facebook messages with Julez Wolf of “True Crime with Julez,” and by   
   failing to make sure that the prosecutors under her supervision themselves   
   abided by the Rules of Professional Conduct.   
      
   “Even after Respondent was on notice her prosecution team had been   
   sanctioned for discovery violations, Respondent failed to verify that   
   designated experts had been interviewed as to the scope of their opinion   
   prior to being disclosed, failed to verify expert disclosures had been   
   reviewed before filing, failed to verify that all material in support of   
   the expert disclosures had been disclosed, and failed to ensure that all   
   such disclosures were timely, and thus did not make reasonable efforts to   
   ensure prosecutors in the Morphew case were complying with the Rules of   
   Professional Conduct,” the complaint said.   
      
   But claim V was the most eye-popping of all, as it alleged that DA Stanley   
   “instructed” her chief investigator Andrew Corey to “interview” the ex-   
   wife of 11th Judicial District Court Judge Ramsey Lama to “uncover   
   information” about his divorce that might lead the presiding judge to   
   recuse himself or other be disqualified from the Morphew case — “despite   
   having had no credible source for suspecting that Judge Lama had   
   physically abused his ex-wife, or other conduct that would justify a   
   criminal investigation.”   
      
   From the complaint:   
      
   139. Respondent persisted in having her own investigator interview the   
   Judge Lama’s ex-wife, even after Commander [Alex] Walker refused to   
   interview Judge Lama’s ex-wife due to a lack of credible evidence to   
   warrant an interview.   
      
   140. Respondent used her position and office’s resources in a manner   
   intended to prevent others, including Judge Lama, from effectively   
   performing their roles in the criminal justice system.   
      
   141. Respondent’s actions constituted of an abuse of her power as an   
   elected district attorney and were contrary to a prosecutor’s   
   responsibility to act as a minister of justice.   
      
   142. Through her actions, Respondent acted in a manner that constituted an   
   attempt to prejudice the administration of justice, and also was   
   prejudicial to the administration of justice.   
      
   Stanley allegedly texted other prosecutors “encouraging them to   
   investigate whether Judge Lama ever abused his ex-wife,” the complaint   
   continued:   
      
   Respondent decided to interview Iris Lama because,   
      
   …we couldn’t understand Judge Lama’s orders that were so egregious against   
   us, and he’s normally not like that. And we were discussing what’s going   
   on, and those two came together. And I said, let’s see if we can get   
   somebody to interview her to see if there was something going on or if she   
   suspects that he is trying to get back at her, essentially, in almost a   
   passive-aggressive way by making this case impossible to prosecute… So we   
   wanted to see if she would say anything to us about any of that or if   
   these actions by the judge may be almost a passive-aggressive move at her.   
      
   As Law&Crime noted when covering a completely separate case in September,   
   Stanley found herself in hot water for an August interview with KRDO, in   
   which she made “very blunt” extrajudicial statements on camera about   
   William Henry Jacobs and Brooke Crawford, a boyfriend and girlfriend who   
   had not yet gone to trial for the alleged Motel 6 murder of a 10-month-old   
   baby boy.   
      
   “Without the caring factor, without the love factor, the baby is a pain in   
   the ass,” Stanley said during the interview, commenting on her view of the   
   alleged motive.   
      
   “I’m going to be very blunt here. He has zero investment in this child.   
   Zero. He’s watching that baby so he can get laid. That’s it. And have a   
   place to sleep,” the DA also said of the boyfriend. “I’m sorry to be that   
   blunt, but honest to God, that’s what’s going on.”   
      
   Those remarks were the subject of claims VI and VII in the complaint,   
   citing a rule against making an extrajudicial statement that a lawyer   
   “reasonably should know will be disseminated by means of public   
   communication and will have a substantial likelihood of materially   
   prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding in the matter,” and a rule barring   
   prosecutors from making out-of-court comments that “Have a substantial   
   likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused.”   
      
   “Even after she’d already suffered the consequences of her extrajudicial   
   statements in the Morphew case, Respondent continued with more brazen   
   statements,” the complaint said, noting the elected DA up for reelection   
   in November 2024 “shall refrain” under the rule from opining on the local   
   news about a “defendant’s guilt or innocence is inherently prejudicial.”   
      
   Many of the remarks are included verbatim in the complaint, and the   
   interview in question remains online:   
      
   Beyond the professional conduct probe, Stanley was named as a defendant in   
   May, along with numerous state and federal investigators, in Barry   
   Morphew’s federal civil rights lawsuit. Morphew alleged his “name and   
   reputation” were “irreparably” tarnished by a “conspiracy to violate his   
   state and federal constitutional rights.”   
      
   Morphew separately called for Stanley to be disbarred in a complaint to   
   the very attorney regulatory body now alleging multiple violations of the   
   Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct.   
      
   In September, more than a year after Barry Morphew’s murder case was   
      
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