Morton Investigator, Medical Examiner Testimony Public
[Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout to provide additional context and details from the testimony.]
The former sergeant who led the investigation that resulted in Michael Morton's wrongful conviction in 1987 told lawyers last week that then-District Attorney Ken Anderson wanted to see every report that investigators made as they tried to determine who brutally murdered Christine Morton. If there was information in the file about leads that could have indicated someone else was the killer, retired Williamson County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Don Wood indicated, Anderson would have had access to those details.
Wood provided ...
Comments (5)
K Johnson
There's a much more detailed analysis, and the transcripts are downloadable, at:
http://www.wilcowatchdog.org
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And the level of misconduct by Anderson and his Wilco DA office just gets worse and worse with the disclosure by Bayardo that his statement regarding the contents of the victims stomach was indicative of Mr. Morton's guilt. It was not and was never meant to do so. I suggest Wilco should embrace a new motto, "Williamson County, where justice goes to die."
Leslie Aisenman
To allow Anderson to continue to preside over what must be presumed to be a corrupt and justice denying court makes this a travesty even Williamson County, known throughout Texas for its failure to provide justice and its partiality for the wealthy and powerful, the mark of Cain across the entire County. It's time for its people to rise up and throw all of the goode ol' boys who make up its privileged ruling class, out of office. 'Til then I would steer clear of the entire county and enter only for the most careful passthrough. Sorry retail establishmnents, you will have to clean up your privy's before you are fit for patronage again.
K Johnson
Even though this article has been updated from the initially-published version, it nonetheless does not cover what is arguably the most important information in the Wood deposition. Wood reveals that there were two meetings held involving Williamson County prosecutors and law enforcement personnel at the time that Morton was being released from, and that second meeting included current DA John Bradley, Ken Anderson, the attorney for Mike Davis, and Wood. The significance of this second meeting is obvious. Was there an effort made to "refresh" memories and synchronize individual accounts with the knowledge that depositions of Wood, Davis and Anderson were likely if not certain, and does this "sychronization" get into the area of witness tampering? Do these two meetings of communal cooperation qualify as being the "investigation" John Bradley claimed he would conduct into prosecutorial misconduct?
K Johnson
An important update to this story was posted at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 6 at http://www.wilcowatchdog.org.