Corrupt prosecutor faces 10 days in jail after sending innocent man to prison for 25 years

Ken Anderson (Source: AP Photo/Statesman.com, Ricardo Brazziell)

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TX — A corrupt former prosecutor will face a rare penalty for intentionally withholding evidence in a trial that sent an man to prison 25 years ago.  For robbing an innocent man of decades of his life, the ex-D.A. will spend now have to spend 10 days in jail.
The case takes us back more than two decades.  On the morning of August 13, 1986, the body of Christine Morton was found beaten to death with a wooden object in her bed.  Her sheets were stained with blood and semen, and her credit card was missing.  Her husband, Texas grocery store manager Michael Morton had not been home since 5:30 a.m., but was seized as the prime suspect.  He had no arrests, convictions, or history of violence against anyone at that time.  He was charged and put on trial for his wife’s murder.
The prosecution, led by district attorney Ken Anderson, presented no physical evidence or witnesses that tied Michael Morton to the crime. They hypothesized that Morton had beaten his wife to death before going to work because she refused to have sex with him on his birthday.  The prosecution claimed that Morton arranged the scene to look like a burglary, and that he masturbated on his wife’s corpse.

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