Kevin Mark Murphy (born May 24, 1957) is a Canadian musician and criminal lawyer, best known as a co-founder of the Ottawa-based music group, Singing Fools.
In his third year of practice as a defence lawyer in 1995, Murphy defended a Barbados business woman, Julia Elliott, who was charged with the grisly murder and dismemberment of a Kemptville, Ontario man, Lawrence Foster.
[5] The Ontario attorney general, Michael Bryant, filed two disciplinary complaints in relation to the case — the first against Cosgrove to the Canadian Judicial Council and the second against Murphy to the Law Society of Upper Canada.
In January 2010, a decade after Cosgrove's controversial ruling, Murphy was disciplined by a Law Society disciplinary panel for "uncivil" conduct towards Crown lawyers and witnesses in the case, despite an acknowledgment by the panel chair that Murphy's conduct during the trial had been condoned, if not encouraged by the presiding trial judge.
[6] In the result, Murphy was suspended from practising law — having become a federal drug prosecutor in 2008 — for six months and fined $10,000 in costs.