Over the past year, Portsmouth prosecutor Matthew Morris has had his law license suspended three times, been found in contempt for twice walking into a courthouse with a gun in his briefcase, and was barred from appearing in criminal cases in Virginia Beach after showing up hours late for a hearing and making troubling statements to the judge.
The actions that led to the various disciplinary actions against Morris occurred before he was hired by the Portsmouth commonwealth’s attorney’s office, and the first two suspensions of his law license were short and for mundane reasons, like not paying his Virginia