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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and
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Justice from Calaroga Shark Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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It's Wednesday, September 9th, 2026. Yesterday morning, Kevin Reddington sat
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down on national television and asked the President of the
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United States to pardon Lindsay Clancy. I'm going to explain
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briefly why that cannot happen, not why it should not happen,
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why it is not legally possible, and why a defense
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attorney with 50 years in Massachusetts courtrooms knows that perfectly well.
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Then we go to Colorado, where Barry Morphew has had
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a genuinely remarkable week. On Wednesday, a judge confined him
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to his house with no exceptions. By Thursday night, he
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was in handcuffs. He is currently in the Boulder County Jail,
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and prosecutors are now asking that his $ 3 million bond
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be thrown out entirely. And then to Pomona, California, where
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a man who was paid to look after elderly women
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was sentenced last week to two consecutive life sentences without
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parole for killing two of them in the same bathroom
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half an hour apart. Let's get into it. Quick recap
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for anybody who has been away. On Friday afternoon, after
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seven days and roughly 38 hours, the jury in the
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Lindsay Clancy case deadlocked and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial.
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Jury notes indicated the panel was split 11 to 1
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in favor of acquittal. Sullivan has set September 29th to
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figure out what happens next, and Plymouth County District Attorney
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Timothy Cruz has not said whether he will retry it.
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On Friday at the White House, President Trump was asked
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about the case. He called it a shame and a
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horrible tragedy. He said it looked like a hung jury
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and that there would be another trial. He said she
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did a horrible thing, that it could not be worse,
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and that there would be a price to pay, and
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that the price would be a mental institution or jail
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or something. And on Tuesday morning on Good Morning America,
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Kevin Reddington responded to that directly. He said that perhaps
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the president, who felt compelled to speak out about this case,
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would consider his client. He addressed him directly and said
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he hoped he would consider this young lady, the type
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of person she is, and what she has been through,
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and consider a pardon. Now here's the thing. The president
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of the United States cannot pardon Lindsay Clancy. Not today.
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Not after a conviction. Not ever. The pardon power comes
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from Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution, and it
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is written narrowly. It applies to offenses against the United States.
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That means federal crimes. Lindsay Clancy is charged under the
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laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a Massachusetts courthouse
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by a Massachusetts district attorney. No president has any authority
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over that, and no president ever has. In Massachusetts, clemency
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runs through the governor. A petition goes to the parole
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board sitting as the advisory board of pardons, which makes
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a recommendation to the governor. And if the governor decides
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to act, that decision still requires the consent of the
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governor's council, an elected body most people in that state
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could not name. And there is a second problem underneath
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the first one. There is nothing to pardon. A mistrial
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is not a conviction. Lindsay Clancy has not been convicted
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of anything. You cannot pardon a person who is awaiting
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a decision about whether they will be tried again. So
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what was that? Kevin Reddington has been practicing criminal law
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in Massachusetts for about 50 years. He knows every word
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of what I just said. He has probably explained it
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to clients. That request was not a legal maneuver, because
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there is no legal maneuver there to make. It was
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a message, and it had exactly two audiences. Because a
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pardon request that cannot legally be granted is not a filing.
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it is a press release with a constitutional costume on.
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The first is the president who put himself into this
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case voluntarily on Friday and who has an enormous megaphone.
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The second is Timothy Cruz, the district attorney who has
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to decide in the next three weeks whether to spend
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another six weeks and an enormous amount of public money
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retrying a case that 11 jurors were ready to walk
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away from. Cruz is not gonna be moved by a
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television appearance. But he is a politician as well as
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a prosecutor, and a president weighing in from a podium
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changes the temperature around a decision that was already going
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to be unpopular whichever way it went. And Reddington said
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the quiet part in the same interview. He said he
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is willing to listen to Cruz, that he has known
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him for 30 years, and that he hopes after this
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trial they could work something out acceptable to both sides.
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That is the actual news out of that appearance, not
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the pardon, the word resolution. And one more thing about
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the pardon request that I do not think is cynical,
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only sad. Reddington also said in that interview that he
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did not know much about postpartum depression before he took
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this case. That is an honest thing for a lawyer
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to admit on national television, and it is also the
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entire problem in one sentence. One of the most experienced
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criminal defense attorneys in Massachusetts had to learn this from
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scratch at 75 because a woman he was representing had
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killed her children. A couple of other things from that interview,
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asked whether he regretted saying Cruz was crushed, Reddington said
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he does not regret it at all, though he allowed
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he could have been more circumspect and simply said he
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did a good job. And he disclosed something we did
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not know, that to his knowledge, the 11 jurors who
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agreed were at not guilty by reason of insanity, not manslaughter,
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not a compromise, an acquittal. That number, if it is right,
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is what Cruz is looking at on his desk right now.
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And I want to be fair to Cruz here because
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he is going to take a beating this month and
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some of it will be unearned. He said Friday that
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the first degree charges were warranted and appropriate. He also
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revealed that his two prosecutors were doxed and endured weeks
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of threats and ridicule for doing their jobs. And he
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brought it back to where it belongs, saying his office
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was at that courthouse because Cora, Dawson and Callen are not.
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He is not a villain for having charged this case.
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Three children were strangled. A prosecutor who looked at that
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and filed nothing would have been derelict. The question in
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front of him now is different, and it is harder.
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It is not whether the charge was right. It is
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whether a second jury, hearing the same 84 witnesses and
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the same six experts, is going to come out anywhere
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different from the first one. Cora Clancy was five. Dawson
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Clancy was three. Callan Clancy was eight months old. September
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29th is the date. Someone has to say their name.
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When we come back, Barry Morphew got put on house
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arrest and was in a jail cell about a day later.
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Suzanne Morphew was 49 years old. She was a mother
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of two daughters. She disappeared on Mother's Day in May
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of 2020 in Chaffee County, Colorado, after reportedly going out
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for a bike ride. Her remains were not found until
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September of 2023, 45 miles from her home, by investigators
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looking for something else. There was no sign of trauma.
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But investigators say her bone marrow contained traces of a
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chemical cocktail used to tranquilize wildlife. Prosecutors allege that Barry
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Morphew was the only person in that area, other than
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wildlife officials, authorized to use those chemicals. He was charged
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in 2021. That case was dismissed in 2022. a grand
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jury indicted him again in 2025. He has pleaded not
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guilty to first-degree murder, he denies killing his wife, and
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he is presumed innocent. His trial is set for next summer.
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He was released on a $ 3 million bond over the
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objection of prosecutors, who argued he had the means and
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the motive to run. The conditions were narrow. Stay home
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in Southern Colorado except for medical appointments and emergencies, work,
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meetings with his lawyers, and court. Wear GPS. Now here
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is the week he just had. On August 26th, at
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about 7.30 in the evening, there was a hit and
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run in Denver at 8th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. Two
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vehicles were struck, one of the drivers recorded video. A
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private citizen with no connection to any of this saw
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a news report about it and emailed the judge in
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Morphew's murder case. Judge Amanda Hopkins watched the video herself.
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And in a written order, she said that the person
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in that footage is very clearly the defendant. The order
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describes a truck driving aggressively before striking two vehicles. A
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man refusing to give his name or identification, saying he
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has no insurance. Offering the other driver $ 300 cash, being refused.
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Then trying to buff the scratches out of her car
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with his hand and his t-shirt. And then, when she
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said she was calling police, leaving, nearly hitting someone and
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going over a curb on his way out. On Wednesday,
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September 2nd, Hopkins ordered him confined to his home at
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all times, no exceptions. Not medical appointments, not work. If
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there is a medical emergency, he calls 911 and leaves
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in an ambulance. She was also careful about what she
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could not do. Under Colorado law, she explained, a court
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cannot independently revoke bond without a probable cause finding on
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a new felony, and no court with jurisdiction over the
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Denver incident has made one. Prosecutors or a bonding commissioner
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have to ask, and Morphew gets a hearing first. So
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prosecutors went and got the GPS data, and what they
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say it shows is this. On August 28th, Barry Morphew
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drove from his home to Denver International Airport, arriving late morning.
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He left the airport almost immediately. Then he spent time
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in areas of hotels and a mall, and then GPS
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puts him in the area of the alleged crash. His
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attorney told prosecutors he was not working at the airport
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and that it is possible he was picking up his daughter.
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District Attorney Ann Kelly's response was that going to the
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airport for any purpose other than work is a breach
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of his bond and that it presents an extreme flight risk.
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She asked for a warrant. On Thursday night, Boulder County
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Sheriff's deputies arrested Barry Morphew and booked him into the
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Boulder County Jail. He had been on house arrest for
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roughly a day. Read that sequence again. Wednesday, a judge
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orders him to stay in his house at all times,
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no exceptions, and explains on the record that she is
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doing it because she watched a video of him leaving
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the scene of a crash. Thursday night, deputies put him
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in handcuffs for failing to comply with that order. One day,
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a bond hearing was set for yesterday afternoon in Alamosa
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District Court, and prosecutors are now asking that the bond
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be revoked outright rather than merely tightened. Let me be
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precise about the presumption here, because it matters. Barry Morphew
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has not been charged with anything arising from the Denver incident.
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Denver police say the case is still under investigation and
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that they were working to contact the registered owner of
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the truck. He is presumed innocent of murdering his wife.
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None of what I just described has been proven anywhere.
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But look, I'm going to be honest with you about
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the picture. An airport. That is the detail. Of all
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the places a man on a $ 3 million bond, accused
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of killing his wife, with prosecutors on record calling him
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a flight risk, could drive to on a Friday, he
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drove to an international airport. And according to the state,
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he was not supposed to be there. There is an
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innocent version of that. His lawyer offered it, and it
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is a completely ordinary thing. He picked up his daughter.
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Fathers do that every single day. If that is what happened,
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it is a bond violation and nothing more sinister than that.
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And there's a playbook for this, which is that when
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you are out on bond in a murder case, you
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do not go anywhere you cannot justify on a piece
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of paper. You go to work, you go to the doctor,
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you go to your lawyer, and you go home. That
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is the deal. $ 3 million is what the deal cost.
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There is also a piece of this that has nothing
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to do with Barry Morphew and everything to do with
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how pre-trial release actually works in this country. The whole
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justification for letting somebody out on bond in a murder
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case is that technology can watch them, so a cell
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does not have to. The ankle monitor is the reason
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a judge can say yes. And in this case, prior
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monitoring reports had reportedly shown no violations at all. Whatever
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the GPS recorded on August 28th, nobody flagged it in
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real time. It only got looked at because prosecutors went
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and pulled the data after a stranger emailed a judge
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about a news report. The monitor was on his ankle
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the entire time. It worked exactly as designed and it
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caught nothing. Because a device that records where you are
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is not the same as a person who notices. Suzanne
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Morphew has been dead for six years. Her body lay
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in the ground for three of them before anybody found her.
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The man charged with killing her will not face a
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jury until next summer, and this week the question in
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front of a Colorado judge was not whether he did it,
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but whether he can be trusted to stay in his
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own house until then. Suzanne Morphew, someone has to say
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her name. When we come back, two women, one bathroom,
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30 minutes. Monica Moon Lee was 75 years old. She
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used a walker. She had dementia. He Sook Park was 83.
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They both lived at a place called Happy Homes Care,
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a small residential facility for elderly women on Sapphire Canyon
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Road in Diamond Bar, California. It operated out of a house.
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Neighbors have said as many as six people lived on
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the property. On the morning of June 24, 2023, the
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overnight caregiver on duty was a man named Jeon Chun Lee.
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Shortly before seven in the morning, prosecutors say he ushered
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Monica Moon Lee into the bathroom and killed her with
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a plastic bag and electrical tape. 30 minutes later, he