9NEWS (Denver): Documents from the Denver District Attorney’s office investigation into Denver’s two top cops call into question the truthfulness of both Chief Robert White and Deputy Chief Matt Murray.

The investigation looked into whether or not the Colorado Open Records Act request was violated when White and Murray failed to disclose the existence of a letter from then-Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey that heavily criticized the department’s handling of a sexual assault investigation involving one of its officers.

9NEWS obtained the investigation documents through a public records request from the Denver District Attorney’s office. The nearly 200 pages of interviews, emails and more than 30 minute interview audio file are part of the investigation into what happened after the police union requested the letter from DPD. The scathing note from Morrissey was sent to White in May 2016 regarding Murray’s handling of a sexual assault case.

The investigative documents shine a light on what happened behind closed doors regarding the CORA request, from putting blame on a secretary to a city official calling the actions of Deputy Chief Murray and Chief White as “clearly deception.”

The District Attorney’s office declined to file charges on May 25, 2017. In a statement, District Attorney Beth McCann said the investigation concluded there was not enough evidence “to find a knowing and willful violation of CORA beyond a reasonable doubt.” However, McCann said in that same statement that the Colorado Open Records Act requests “were handled carelessly by DPD, particularly by Chief White and Deputy Chief Murray.”

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