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District attorney fires veteran prosecutor

Some transparency here would be nice. Will the appeal proceedings be public? When a 25 year prosecutor (who happens to be a former political opponent of the DA) is fired for cause, questions about objectivity naturally arise. It seems to me that the public has a right to know the details.

Can we fire Lohra Miller instead??

He gets convictions and is rewarded by termination. Seems Like Lora doesn't want someone showing her up.

Miller is out of control and making a mockery of the DA's office. The office should strive to uphold justice, not to play politics and take out personal vendettas.

I think every attorney should find a way to get rid of the other attorneys, judges, magistrates, etc. and start over.

People of Salt Lake County...get ready for higher taxes and cuts to county programs to fund the lawsuit that Lohra has just created for you.

Nice work, Lohra, again!

I worked for Kent. He is one of the most ethical and brightest minds I've ever known. He should be the D.A. based on merit alone.

If there is any dispute, you can bet Kent is on the right side of it.

Good luck cleaning house, Kent!

we the people should fire Lohra when we have to pay for the lawsuit that is going to come out of this. Thats what attorneys do SUE!

This is outrageous. Salt Lake County is less safe today with this firing. I didn't agree with Mr. Morgan on most things politically, but he was an outstanding, hard-working, intelligent prosecutor. Perhaps the County will wake up and see Lohra Miller for what she is: a hack prosecutor out to give patronage jobs to her similarly hack cronies.

One Call! That's All

At risk of speaking about intimate details of an office situation I am not aware of...

You often see in politics that great minds cannot win office. Sometimes you are just plain old too smart, you don't suffer the fools very well. And often you are so dedicated to your job that don't develop the social skills necessary to thrive in political environments.

The most honest opinion poll ever asked was done by Dan Jones in 1996 between Clinton and Dole. He didn't ask who they were going to vote for but who they "wanted" to vote for. Dole won by getting 16% of the votes to Clinton's 13%.

Winning office requires an entirely different set of skills, that may or may not translate into high performance for the office elected. How many of us know of many people smarter, more honest, etc than our current office holders, yet we vote for them every time?

Lohra Miller may in fact be a great DA and this issue has some merit. I don't know. What I do know is that some of our elected officials are briliant campaigners, once elected literally don't have a clue what to do.

Too bad Lohra can't be fired. She adds no value to the DA's office; rather, she has only caused problems. Let's hope the voters are smarter the next election.

We do not know the whole story yet so lets wait and see what the reason is. But I have worked with kent for almost 2 decades and it has to be said: he is one of the best prosecuting attoneys in this state. There is a reason he has been involved in so many high profile cases. He is a professional and one of the best on the side of the good guys.

He must not have handled a case correctly . . . at least in Lohra "I've only handled a few misdemeanor cases" Miller's eyes.

Another example of why we should not vote for someone based on their party affiliation alone.
Lohra Miller is a train wreck, and has single handedly cost the city of some of the best prosecutors it has ever had.

Good luck Kent

It's good she got rid of him, if he wants to prosecute, he should work a caseload instead of expecting to be a primadonna and getting huge money for NO prosecution work except slam dunk cases he selects to prosecute. He's an entrenched good ole' boy and now he's pitching a fit cause he's not getting selective treatment any more.

Maybe just maybe he will know how it feels to get put down and hard by someone in that kind of a position!! Maybe he needs to know just how it feels!! Sometimes you need to know the other side of Injustice and how it feels!!

Kent Morgan is one of the most brilliant and talented attorneys I have ever known, and Lorha is going to be hard pressed to find one of her flunkies to fill his shoes. The public should be aware that she has been hiring her friends, with salaries that exceed veteran employees salaries. To those employees who worked so hard to get Lorha into office; can I now say, "I told you so."

An awful long article when neither party will comment.

Good for them. Go pound sand media....

Lohra's only qualification for office was that she had ovaries. You people elected her because you thought it would be cool to have a young woman in charge? Shame on you! Her opponents were vastly more competent! You people should try thinking. There's a reason the people who endorsed her, endorsed her. It wasn't competence, it was control.

I too have worked with Kent Morgan and he is definately one of the smartest (and wittiest) attorneys I have ever known. Since he has lots of experience with these capital murder cases, he gets them. And he gets results.

These are very complex cases, there are boxes and boxes of files.

I have less experience with Ms. Miller, but she and her husband seem like nice people.

Nevertheless, I doubt Morgan did anything that warrants firing.