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Lori Prichard reportingA veteran of the Salt Lake County District Attorney's office is speaking out tonight against Lohra Miller because, he says, she fired him for no reason.
Kent Morgan has been a prosecutor with the Salt Lake County District Attorney's office for 24 years. He says he was given his walking papers yesterday.
Kent Morgan has prosecuted many big-name cases over the years, including the Elizabeth Smart case, more than 20 murder cases and hundreds of lesser felony cases.
Morgan says he was summoned to a meeting yesterday. He said, "Absolutely unprepared when I walked in. I knew something was up when I saw our personnel attorney there and knew that it was about me, but I had no idea this was coming."
Morgan was fired for something he says he didn't do. "The essence of the allegations is that I leaked confidential information to a friend of mine who is facing charges, which I vehemently deny that. I did not do that, and I had no confidential information to leak to him."
While questions of a so-called revolving door among veteran attorneys at the District Attorney's office have circulated, not to mention the fact that Kent Morgan initially ran against Lohra Miller in the DA's race but later dropped out, we asked Morgan what's going on over there?
He replied, "I would certainly like to see an office that returns to professionalism and respect for the people who work here. And at least for someone who has a question, for someone to come forward and say, ‘What's your side of the story?'"
And that's what we asked Lohra Miller's office, what's your side of the story? The spokesman for the DA's Office says because Morgan is on administrative leave, pending a termination hearing, he still legally works for the DA office; and the DA's office doesn't comment on ongoing personnel issues.
