"60 Minutes" to Feature Michael Morton on Sunday
In a long-awaited segment, the CBS news program 60 Minutes will air its story this Sunday on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton.
The former grocery store manager was convicted in 1987 of murdering his wife, Christine Morton. Morton was sentenced to life in prison and served 25 years before DNA tests last year proved his innocence and connected another man to the brutal crime. Morton was freed in October and officially exonerated in December.
The man whose DNA was connected to Christine Morton's murder was also found at the scene of another Austin murder in 1988. Mark Norwood ...
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visule
Thank You Brandi for the heads up, I will set my DVR for this must watch national story. I hope this increased spot light will compel our state leaders to take action. Our criminal courts are not about truth and justice, but have been perverted and corrupted by bad actors such as Anderson. Morton was an extreme case, but I suspect lots of people have been shoved through the system for purposes filing prison beds, taking fines, and politics of being tough on crime. Let’s hope something good comes from this outrageous injustice.
Samdavis
Williamson County as well as Harris and Dallas are notorious for fast-tracking convictions while ignoring or even covering up evidence. We've seen just a small sampling of that fact in what the Innocence Project has uncovered. It's too late to bring many of these prosecutors to justice (though we can hope Rusty Hardin does his job in Morton's case) but we need to highlight and admit to these injustices.
The law and order crowd that calls for more executions and longer sentences (usually the religious right/pro gun crowd) fail to see that cases like these are the inevitable result of "fast" justice.