jurors, but this was like relief and almost jubilation, and i suppose that goes back to the that they had they had taken michael off the street, and they had rejected the only defense theory that we had, that this was the act of some of some maniac who had walked into your house and killed you. by rejecting that, there is no m man yak out there. this may not be the last time we see michael morton in court. for morton, he ll be binding his time in a texas prison. ur favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. tum, tum tum tum tums!
i was honored to be a part of in any way that i could. they asked me to take the case pro bono and to file a motion for dna testing for michael morton. and i did. after 2001, when i figuratively and literally saw the light, that changed everything. that experience may have just happened that one night, but the way i ve come to interpret it or internalize it, accept it, took awhile. i m not accustomed to supernatural experiences. it took me awhile to kind of appreciate it or to understand it those three things that god exists and that he is wise and that he loves me made me not really care a great deal whether or not i spent the rest of my life in there. so if i was going to get out, it
we needed to work with we didn t have. what michael got was a fundamentally unfair trial when the constitution says that you are entitled to a fair trial. i am hopeful that this case sends a message that the law will be followed and that if the law is not followed there will be consequences. a texas supreme court justice has cleared the way for michael morton to find out why evidence that could have set him free was not turned over to his lawyers 25 years ago. we really do believe in due process. we really do believe that people shouldn t hide evidence that doesn t support their cause when it s their obligation to reveal it. it is important to note that judge ken anderson has said he did nothing wrong in the morton case, but also testified in a deposition that he just did not remember most of the details
district attorney anderson was someone we seen and looked up to. he ran the court. he ran the case. he was his timing was good. he just came across as not only believable, but almost, you know, just iconic in the room. the lead investigator was don wood, who was on the witness list, and we thought wood would take the stand, and that we would have the opportunity to cross him and when he was passed to us for cross-examination, we would get his reports. they never called don wood, instead they called sheriff boutwell to the stand. he didn t testify for very long, and he didn t really say that much. why were they being so careful with woods? we didn t know. in other trial news, damaging testimony yesterday in the wife beating murder trial of michael morton. the jury relied on the medical
stomach contents alone. all of the medical literature then and of course now says that. dr. byers didn t see the body until it was too late to do a rigor mortis or liver mortis analysis. so he did this stomach contents analysis. and really it was probably on the basis of that stomach contents junk science that michael was convicted. from the autopsy with vaginal swabs, rectal swabs, oral swabs, all the usually stuff clippings we were having those things tested thinking that would reveal the assailant. and so those results were coming back all negative negative negative. in february of 2005, we filed our first motion. and we sought dna testing on the swabs from christine s body. we asked for the bloody bandanna found 100 yards behind the house along what we always believed to be the escape route of the