GUILTY CA - Christine Morton, 31, beaten to death, Williamson County, 13 Aug 1986

[Softail]

Judge Anderson resigns amid controversy
One-time prosecutor facing being disbarred


GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) - Embattled state District Judge Ken Anderson resigned his post on Tuesday after almost two years of controversy stemming from his role as Williamson County district attorney more than 25 years ago.

The governor's office confirmed the resignation.

Anderson, who long nurtured a tough law-and-order reputation, is facing being disbarred over his handling of the Michael Morton case in the 1980s. As a prosecutor, Anderson helped convicted Morton of killing his wife in 1986, but that conviction was overturned with the emergence of DNA evidence in October 2011.

http://www.kxan.com/news/williamson/judge-anderson-resigns-amid-controversy

 

[joe jones]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...nvicting-innocent-michael-morton-8930428.html

about time

 

[Softail]

Anderson gets 10 days in jail, community service
Relates to actions in Michael Morton trial


GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) - On February 6th, 1987, Judge William Lott asked then prosecutor Ken Anderson if he had any evidence which would have been favorable to defendant Michael Morton, who was on trial for the murder of his wife, Christine.

The answer was “No, sir.”

Nearly 27 years later, Anderson will serve jail time for that answer


http://www.kxan.com/news/anderson-back-in-court-in-misconduct-case

 

[Tugela]

Cases like this are what I think of when I hear or read people lamenting the lengthy appeal process in our justice system... The facts are that this is happening not only in Texas but in just about every state of the Union. Poor people, people of color, people belonging to particular religions, people employed in less-than-savory jobs, people whose families are disliked by the community or by the prosecution in particular are "rail-roaded" every day by overzealous prosecutors who are more interested in their future political careers than in justice. The system rewards them when they seal a successful prosecution -- regardless if the guilty party is actually guilty or not. DAs proudly point to their bottom-line counts and say, "See? I've gotten all these bad-guys off the streets." The problem is that, in what we're discovering is a more and more common occurrence, their "win at all costs" philosophy is causing a heckuva lot of innocent people to pay for the crimes of others... It's a real shame.

Many cases are decided on purely circumstantial grounds, and you can bet that a significant proportion of those are wrongful convictions.

 

[Tugela]

Anderson gets 10 days in jail, community service
Relates to actions in Michael Morton trial


GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) - On February 6th, 1987, Judge William Lott asked then prosecutor Ken Anderson if he had any evidence which would have been favorable to defendant Michael Morton, who was on trial for the murder of his wife, Christine.

The answer was “No, sir.”

Nearly 27 years later, Anderson will serve jail time for that answer


http://www.kxan.com/news/anderson-back-in-court-in-misconduct-case

10 days for taking 25 years of someone's life?

He should receive the same sentence the guy he convicted received.

 

[fran]

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/williamson/mark-norwood-murder-trial-may-wrap-up

closings expected today

So, because they suppressed evidence in the first case, he's suspected in a second murder.

That former DA/Judge has blood on his hands. And all he gets is 10 days. IMHO, that judge presiding over this case needs to rethink his last statement to the convicted/disgraced DA.

Truly sad,
JMHO
fran



http://www.kxan.com/news/mark-norwood-murder-trial-may-wrap-up

Carnes said the similarities between Morton's murder and the Baker murder fit the criteria of a "signature crime," thus making evidence from Baker's murder admissible into the current trial.

Baker, a young mother, was found beaten to death on Jan. 13, 1988, in her Austin home. Norwood lived in Baker's Northcentral Austin neighborhood at the time and worked as a carpet layer. Norwood was arrested for two home break-ins and a car burglary a year before Baker's death.

In both the Morton and Baker cases, the victims were killed with a blunt object and their heads were covered with pillows. DNA matching Norwood's profile was found at both crime scenes.

 

[Cappuccino]

IMHO, that judge presiding over this case needs to rethink his last statement to the convicted/disgraced DA.

If you mean the comment that "the world is a better place because of you" that wasn't directed at the DA it was directed at Michael Morton.

As for the prosecutor, he got off lightly, but at least he'll never be allowed to practice law again.

 

[KateB]

Michael Morton's Life in Prison, In His Own Words

Excerpts from his book "Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace."
by Pamela Colloff
Tue July 8, 2014 9:00 am

Michael Morton's book is available at stores today. Excerpts are published in this article posted today on Texas Monthly magazine's website.