{"id":28137,"date":"2011-04-05T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28137"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:49:54","slug":"murphy-has-%e2%80%98committed-no-crime%e2%80%99-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/murphy-has-%e2%80%98committed-no-crime%e2%80%99-lawyer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy has \u2018committed no crime,\u2019 lawyer says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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District Judge Mike Murphy<\/p><\/div>\n

The attorney representing Third Judicial District Judge Mike Murphy\u00a0says any suggestion that the judge committed a crime is \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJudge Murphy has not committed any crime, and any suggestion otherwise is absurd,\u201d Las Cruces attorney Michael Stout was quoted today by the Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudge Murphy is a dedicated and honest judge and was a tremendously experienced and talented lawyer,\u201d Stout said. \u201cHis selection as a judge several years ago was an easy pick and followed the same nominating process that produced all judges in the state and in Las Cruces, including the most recent appointees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an insult to all judges in New Mexico and Las Cruces to suggest that any judgeship could be purchased. Judge Murphy\u2019s position was not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve reported, Murphy has received notification that a grand jury will consider charging him with bribery<\/a>. The allegations under investigation are that Murphy, a Democrat, paid a bribe in exchange for then-Gov.\u00a0Bill Richardson<\/a> appointing him to the bench in 2006, and that he may have solicited bribes for Richardson from applicants for other judgeships.<\/p>\n

The bribe or bribes were allegedly paid as political contributions and went to an unnamed \u201clocal political figure.\u201d<\/a> No one besides Murphy, including Richardson, has received notification that they may be indicted.<\/p>\n

A grand jury has been scheduled to meet twice \u2013 most recently for today \u2013 and then delayed<\/a>. NMPolitics.net has not been able to verify the reason the grand jury has been delayed or the date it\u2019s now scheduled to meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The attorney representing Third Judicial District Judge Mike Murphy says any suggestion that the judge committed a crime is \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112,142,115,216,161,114,107],"class_list":["post-28137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bill-richardson","tag-crime","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-judge-murphy","tag-judiciary","tag-public-corruption","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}