On "60 Minutes," Exoneree Seeks Accountability
Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder, told Lara Logan of CBS's 60 Minutes that it's not revenge he's after — it's accountability.
"I don't want this to happen to anybody else. Revenge isn't the issue here," he said. "Revenge, I know, doesn't work. But accountability works."
A Williamson County jury sentenced Morton to life in prison in 1987 after district attorney Ken Anderson convinced them the 32-year-old grocery store manager and father had beat his wife to death in a perverted rage. DNA evidence last ...
Comments (11)
Samdavis
Ken Anderson apologized for the system which caused the false imprisonment. Real justice demands that a guilty Ken Anderson spend a significant term in the TDC. Will it happen? Judges take care of judges; he'll never spend a day and will retire with full pension.
Jill Scoggins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's a sad day when we have to actually tell Texans that "accountability works." I remember a time when Texans lived up to their responsibilities to do what is right and were accountable for their mistakes.
Michael Giberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A failure to hold prosecutors accountable for their misconduct is like bailing out banks and investors that made bad bets during the housing boom. Let's not bail out bad prosecutors.
Kirk Holden
The Wilco-stan Taliban are only accountable to their cruel deity.
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I don't get how Anderson's attorney could look at the cameras and say what he did about "absolute immunity" for prosecutors is necessary for justice to prevail with a straight face. It makes no sense. If a prosecutor does nothing wrong, there is no worry about that. But granting them immunity gives them carte blanche to break all the rules!!!
Can someone explain the necessity?
Dianna Pharr via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Beautiful quote
Bob Whitlock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Twenty-five years of a man's life, due to bending a few rules to advance an ambitious D.A.'s career. How else do you read it and how can we believe in justice without accountability?
jpt51
An entire 60 Minurtes segment could be on Bradley's role in this case and his role in preveting the truth known in the wrongful death of Todd Willingham.
Robert Brandes
Nothing that came out of Williamson County in that era would surprise me..... "good 'ol boy" cronyism at its best or worst depending on one's point of view
Dale Curry
My suggestion to Mr. Nichols, is that when he is pleading his client's case, he stay away from terms like justice, accountability, integrity.....those concepts do not put his client in a favorable light, if he even understands such terms.
Dale Curry
I especially like the part where Nichols tried to say it was "the benefit of hindsight" and "the benefit of DNA tests that came available in 2011" . Just how many years did the DA office in Wilco conspire with his client to keep those tests from happening???? These boys have got to leave a slime trial when they walk by, with Mr. Nichol's client leaving the largest!