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Michael Morton was wrongly convicted in 1987 for his wife’s murder, serving 25 years despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime.
Imagine what happened to Michael Morton
happened because procecutors and law enforcement officials
crooked up a case against him and hid evidence that would have identified the real killer.
The case of Michael Morton is an illustration
of improper and illegitimate use of justice
as explained on the first webpage ‘Preface’.
It is something that should not be possible within the justice system.
One cannot imagine, someone belongs to the entities of justice and exactly he manipulates a case in order to imprison a completely innocent Michael Morton for 25 years of his life.
Justice has the property of making reality unrecognisable.
The perversion of Justice in the Micheal Morton Case
They are sticking points, the bottlenecks, the contrains of a justice system.
A small thing is enough to disrupt justice and make it pointless and destructive.
Men kan zich niet voorstellen, dat iemand tot de entiteiten van justitie behoort en precies hij een zaak manipuleert om een volkomen onschuldige Michael Morton voor 25 jaar van zijn leven op te sluiten.
Justitie heeft de eigenschap de werkelijkheid onherkenbaar te maken.
‘The perversion of Justice’ in de Micheal Morton
Het zijn de valkuilen, de knelpunten, de obstakels van het rechtssysteem.
Michael Morton was wrongly imprisoned for nearly 25 years in Texas for the murder of his wife, Christine Morton. The key points of his case are:
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Who is Michael Morton?
“He was just an ordinary, law-abiding citizen, who got clobbered for no good reason,” says 60 Minutes producer Andy Court, who co-produced this week’s story about Morton’s wrongful murder conviction and 25 years in prison.
During the reporting process, Court says, “there were often times I thought of the Bible. I thought of the story of Job– someone who just endures suffering after suffering, and it’s not clear why.”
In 1987, Morton was convicted of beating his wife, Christine, to death. Twenty-five painful years later, he finally cleared his name through DNA evidence, walked out of prison, and began to pick up the pieces of his life.
For the 60 Minutes team who came to know Morton, one of the most emotional parts of this tragic tale was Morton’s estrangement from his son, who was just three at the time of the murder.
“The relationship between Michael Morton and his son, I think, transfixed all of us,” Court told Overtime. “The fact that this little boy saw his mother murdered…and then at the very point when the father needed the son and the son needed the father, they were ripped apart. The son was raised by relatives, no doubt thinking that his father had killed his mother. You can only imagine what it was like for the son to find out, ‘Oh my God, what people told me was wrong. Dad didn’t kill mom. Dad was an innocent man.'”
In this week’s Overtime feature, Court and his team tell us more about Morton, his relationship with his son, and his granddaughter, Christine.
Producer’s update: Since this story aired on 60 Minutes, Michael Morton got married to a woman he met through his church. Last month, Morton watched as legislation he had lobbied for was signed by Texas Governor Rick Perry. The new law requires prosecutors to disclose investigative information to the defense. It’s called “The Michael Morton Act.”
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6 HCCLA Reasonable Doubt – John Raley (Michael Morton)
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Michael Morton and his mother, Patricia Morton, in October after a judge announced him free on bond after nearly 25 years in prison for a wrongful conviction.
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