UPDATE: Special prosecutor appointed to Murphy investigation

By LARRY THOMAS
Larry.Thomas@newsandtribune.com

August 24, 2007 05:36 pm

— John Colin, Harrison County’s chief deputy prosecutor, has been appointed special prosecutor and will review allegations that former Clark County Republican Chairman Glenn Murphy Jr. sexually assaulted a man in a Jeffersonville home on July 29.
The appointment came from Clark Circuit Court on Friday, a day after Indianapolis lawyer James Voyles Jr. filed a motion requesting a special prosecutor on Murphy’s behalf.
To date, Murphy, a Utica resident, has not been arrested nor has he been charged with a crime.
In February 2006, Clark Circuit Judge Dan Donahue appointed Colin special prosecutor and asked him to review allegations that Utica Councilman Greg Morrison had offered to have a woman’s sentence on drug charges reduced in exchange for sex. Three months later, Colin announced that there was no evidence that Morrison had committed a crime.