Lawyers for husband once charged with murder in Suzanne Morphew's presumed death say DA withheld evidence in bid to convict him

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.

The complaint was filed last month with Colorado's Office of Regulatory Counsel, nearly a year after Stanley's office requested that the charges against Morphew be dropped shortly before he was to have faced trial. He had also been charged with tampering with a human body, tampering with physical evidence, possession of a dangerous weapon and attempting to influence a public servant.