Texas Prosecutor Will Serve 10 Days in Jail for Wrongfully Convicting Man Imprisoned for 25 Years

Law • November 2013 • Views: 1,291

Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson did not disclose evidence to the defense in a case 27 years ago, and will spend 10 days in a county jail.

As a consequence of that misconduct, though, Michael Morton spent 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife Christine, a crime he did not commit, for which he was exonerated by DNA evidence last year.

Christine Morton’s actual killer, Mark Alan Norwood, was convicted of her murder earlier this year, and is now indicted for killing another woman in Austin two and a half years after Christine’s death.

10 whole days for 25 years in prison?

Yeah, that seems fair.

Great job Texas.

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4 comments

jaunte Sat, Nov 9, 2013 5:55:13pm

Anderson’s sentence was part of a plea-bargain package reached with a special prosecutor and lawyers from the State Bar of Texas.
Anderson will be disbarred, pending final review by the Texas Supreme Court, and must wait at least five years before applying for reinstatement of his law license.

In September, Anderson resigned as judge for the county’s 277th District Court. That was also part of the plea deal.
statesman.com

Not enough.

Hal_10000 Sat, Nov 9, 2013 8:13:18pm

To be fair to Texas, this kind of misconduct, which goes on in every state, is very rarely punished at all. As pathetic as the punishment is, it’s actually a huge improvement over the “just sweep it under the rug” ideology that has prevailed and still prevails in most of the country.

Danforth Sat, Nov 9, 2013 9:55:25pm

This is nothing short of scandalous. We should have a “Public Trust Act”, where anyone who has been granted the Public Trust (legislator, DA, pension trustee, etc) and is then found to have used the office or public trust to violate the law, gets sentenced to three times the maximum sentence for that crime, at a real prison, with no chance for parole.

10 days?!? Hell, this heartless asshole should get ten decades.

garzooma Sun, Nov 10, 2013 6:52:57am

Not only did the prosecutor convict the wrong man, but the real killer went on to kill again. The evidence that the prosecutor hid might have led to catching the real killer and preventing the second murder:

Anderson refused to disclose that the lead police investigator had learned that Morton’s 3-year-old son witnessed the crime and told his grandmother that Morton wasn’t the perpetrator, that Anderson had learned that a neighbor had reported seeing someone staking out the house, and that someone had tried to use the victim’s credit card in San Antonio after the murder.

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