Former Prosecutor Taps Full Range of Experiences
HOUSTON — The key to Rusty Hardin’s extraordinary career, in his view, has been his ordinariness. He is just a regular guy.
A regular guy whose expansive office on the 22nd story of a Houston high-rise frames the city’s skyline. A regular guy who is famous for his ice-cream colored suits. A regular guy whose walls are lined with newspaper photos of his superstar clients, including Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs and Warren Moon.
“If I ever thought I was special for a moment, I’d lose every bit of advantage I have,” said Hardin, a 70-year-old lawyer and native ...
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visule
Excellent article Brandi! Hardin said “The accusations that have been made publicly go to the heart of the fairness of the criminal justice system.” Let’s hope Hardin reminds himself that daily. This hearing, which I assume will be public, is an important first step in cleaning up the rot and stench in our Texas Courts.
Fred Blanton
Withholding evidence is no less as heinous as the crime he was charged with; it is no less the same as the gunman that murders, the thief that steals. Stealing 25 years of one's life especially in the name of justice should be paid for with the same time, starting now.....and check with me in 25 years and I will tell you if it's enough.
Kevin Hays
Brandi ins't telling the whole story. Just like others have pointed out in the comments on her other stories about the Morton case, she has left out details and facts that don't mesh with the addenda herself and other feel the need to promote. The other side has published actual court records that read a bit different and show something entirely different occurred in the court room in 1987. It's interesting to note that all the "suppressed evidence" was known by Micheal Morton and his attorney in 1987. They've also never released their file and what their PI found when investigating. Micheal's interview after his conviction is proof of this. Later, he and his attorney also promoted lies about a check that HE signed after his wife's murder. When drafting the Report to Court, they raised an issue about a check that Morton signed and deposited. His current lawyers argued that a report to the police from the owner of the check about the signature proved that another man (the real killer) must have signed the check and cashed it since it was in the stolen purse (the only reported item stolen from the house). Morton kept his story up until the AG of Texas started asking him hard questions about it and he switched his story 180 degrees once he realized that he could be committing perjury. Reading further into the accusations has shown to me at least that these stories about burring evidence is a complete farce. After all Berry Scheck, the DNA "expert" for O.J. Simpson, was able to argue that OJ's socks containing Ron Goldman and Nicole Browns were somehow tainted effectively helping OJ walk. Flash forward to today, Scheck argued that an "old weathered" bandanna found 100 yards away from the house with the victims blood and another persons DNA proved without a doubt that Morton didn't kill his wife. The issue with that is the bandanna was passed over by the investigators since "it looked like it had been there a while". The victims brother picked it up and brought it back into the house where the murder had occurred earlier that day and then waited until the next day to turn it in to the police. I guess chain of custody doesn't matter to Scheck in this case since he's trying to take down a State Judge and show his law students (and his ego) that he's such a tough guy on prosecutors that "do wrong". If you'd like to think outside the box and read real accounts and court records of the trial please follow this link: http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/austin/courts/upload/2012/01/february_hearing_set_in_morton/Anderson%20response.pdf
marty farty
Let's hope that MR Hardin has the b***s to do what is right is the Morton case. God is watching you Mr. Hardin.