Michael Morton freed after 25 years in prison, prosecutor gets 10 days

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[font color="black" size="5" face="face"]Ex-prosecutor gets 10 days in jail over Michael Morton case[/font]

GEORGETOWN — A former Texas prosecutor charged over a wrongful murder conviction agreed to a 10-day jail sentence Friday, accepting the punishment in front of the innocent man he helped put in prison for nearly 25 years.

Ken Anderson also will be disbarred and must serve 500 hours of community service as part of a sweeping deal that was expected to end all criminal and civil cases against the embattled ex-district attorney.

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“It’s a good day,” said Morton, surrounded by his lawyers and family members. “I said the only thing that I wanted, as a baseline, is Ken Anderson to be off the bench and no longer practicing law — and both of those things have happened, and more.”

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Anderson must report to Williamson County Jail by Dec. 2. [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]Morton’s attorneys said that Anderson could serve as few as four days.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20131108-ex-prosecutor-gets-10-days-in-jail-over-michael-morton-case.ece

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The evidence the prosecutor had that favored Morton was overwhelming. His son told his mother-in-law that the man he saw murder his mother had a "big mustache". Neighbors said they saw a suspicious van outside the neighborhood. Days after the murder, his wife's credit card was used fraudulently and checks were forged. Morton had no criminal record or history of violence. Still it took 6 years for the Innocence Project to get Texas to test a bandana found outside the home for DNA.

This is what justice for men looks like in the state of Texas. I suppose in a way Morton is lucky. Texas murdered Cameron Todd Willingham.