Exonerated Of Murder, Texas Man Seeks Inquiry Of Prosecutor

 Judge Sid Harle formally exonerated Michael Morton in a Georgetown courtroom Monday. Now, Morton’s attorneys are seeking a “court of inquiry” into whether or not there was prosecutorial misconduct during the original investigation that led to Morton's conviction.

Morton, 56, was found guilty of murder after his wife Christine was discovered bludgeoned to death in her bedroom in August of 1986. He spent more than 24 years behind bars before DNA evidence led to his release from prison this October.

Morton's attorneys are asking Judge Harle to embark on a fact-finding mission into whether or not the prosecutors in the trial, former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson and Assistant District Attorney Mike Davis, withheld evidence in Morton's 1987 murder trial that led to his wrongful murder conviction.

Bennet L. Gershman, an expert on prosecutorial misconduct at Pace University in New York told the New York Yimes... “It’s an extraordinary legal event.”

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