State Seeks Gag Order in 1986 Murder Case
GEORGETOWN — Attorneys for the Texas attorney general's office today asked Williamson County state district Judge Burt Carnes to issue a gag order in the case of Mark Alan Norwood, the 57-year-old Bastrop resident who is facing trial in the 1986 murder of Christine Morton.
"There exists an ongoing serious and imminent threat to the integrity of the administration of justice in these causes as a result of such extrajudicial statements," Assistant Attorney General Lisa Tanner wrote in the motion seeking to silence parties in the case.
Carnes said he would take the motion under advisement.
Norwood, who appeared in ...
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Robert Guest via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Because that's the problem with murder prosecutions in Texas, too much transparency.
Elaine Pinckard via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yeah! What he said.