Main navigation

Innocent Man Gets Dead Wife and 25 Years in Jail; Lying Prosecutor Gets 10 Days in Jail

| by

It’s hard to imagine losing a spouse to a senseless act of violence. It’s even harder to imagine being wrongfully prosecuted for the crime and spending the next 25 years in jail.

According to the Austin-American Statesman, Michael Morton was convicted of murdering his wife, Christine, in a 1987 trial. There was just one small problem with that conviction: he didn’t do it.

The prosecutor, Ken Anderson, withheld crucial evidence that could have exonerated Morton. One piece was a recording of Christine’s mother who indicated the couple’s three-year-old child witnessed the murder and claimed the assailant was a monster, noting that his father was not home at the time. Another involved a police report of a suspicious person who had parked and walked into a wooded area behind the couple’s home on several occasions. Any reasonable juror would have doubted Morton’s guilt based on these examples alone.

However, Anderson claimed Morton killed his wife in a late-night rage and arranged the scene to make it look like a burglary. He did so despite the fact that no witnesses or forensic evidence ever tied him to the crime and no murder weapon was ever found.

Morton was ultimately sentenced to life in prison. He was freed 25 years later after DNA evidence on a bandana found near the home proved his innocence and the guilt of another man, who is now serving a life sentence for this and another murder.

Meanwhile, Anderson will lose his license and spend a mere 10 days in jail. That seems like hardly a just punishment for wittingly robbing a man of 25 years of freedom and forcing a child to grow up without his only surviving parent.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Only compensation: Multi-million dollar lawsuit and a destroyed life.

    Oh, boy. What joys abound….not.

    • I agree with the big lawsuit against the state, but think the former prosecutor should also be held accountable through a civil lawsuit.

  3. Simple, If a prosecutor or investigator does something like that, he should be sent to finish the guys sentence! It happens all the time. Lock a few of them up and it will stop.

    • Those bastards should get thirty years in prison. The only thing that prosecutors will understand is loss of money or loss of a lot of freedom, not just ten days’ worth.

      • Most states give prosecutors immunity and this crap needs to stop. But the voters encourage it. We vote them in because they are “tough on crime” and have 95% conviction rates. Too bad they want convictions and not truth.
        We even have psycobabalist who give phony testamony putting inocent people in prison or even getting the guilty off to offend again and they’re immune.

        • Many times, the immunity only covers doing the job faithfully. Committing crimes, and what he did is most certainly a crime against humanity, should not be covered. If he killed him on the stand because he was proclaimed guilty, he would not have immunity.

          • Qualified immunity, when applicable, shields government officials from liability for the violation of an individual’s federal constitutional rights.
            This grant of immunity is available to state or federal employees
            performing discretionary functions where their actions, even if later
            found to be unlawful, did not violate “clearly established law.” The
            defense of qualified immunity was created by the U.S. Supreme Court,
            replacing a court’s inquiry into a defendant’s subjective state of mind
            with an inquiry into the objective reasonableness of the contested
            action. A government agent’s liability in a federal civil rights lawsuit
            now no longer turns upon whether the defendant acted with “malice,” but on whether a hypothetical reasonable person in the defendant’s position would have known that his/her actions violated clearly established law.

            As outlined by the Supreme Court in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982),[1]
            qualified immunity is designed to shield government officials from
            actions “insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established
            statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would
            have known.”

            In 2001, the Supreme Court in Saucier v. Katz
            established a rigid order in which courts must decide the merits of a
            defendant’s qualified immunity defense. First, the court determines
            whether the complaint states a constitutional violation. If so, the next
            sequential step is to determine whether the right at issue was clearly
            established at the time of the official’s conduct. The Court
            subsequently overruled Saucier in Pearson v. Callahan, holding that the two-step procedure was no longer mandatory.

            All they have to do is say they thought they were acting properly. The person they are destroying has to prove the government person acted willfully. Good luck.

            .

            .

            .

          • If someone commits a crime, it should not matter who you are etc. Why should certain people be immune just because of the job they have. That is discrimination. I thought all people were created equal but if you look around the world, you will notice that is so far from the truth.

          • Not everyone is dangerous. I do agree that most people act responsibly and think when stopped or approached by a police officer.

          • I agree unarmed does not mean not dangerous. As for most people? Police Officers are trained that there is no such thing as a normal encounter/stop. That mind set will prevent you from going home to your family.
            It is so easy to judge w/o living in the moment. There are always three sides to a story, yours, theirs and somewhere’s in between the truth. The police have a tough job to do! Tell me how you would feel if a perp was pointing a gun to your head? Would you hate the police so much when he came to recue you? I think not!

          • It depends… was the “unarmed person” beating the @#@# out of the cop? was this same person attempting to take the cops weapon? Did the “unarmed person” just strong arm rob a store? Was this “unarmed person” physically, so much bigger than the cop that the cop felt like this “unarmed person” would be successful in taking his weapon?… Because if this is the case then no… it is not similar.
            If a cop just shoots someone that wasn’t endangering the cops life or someone else’s life… then yes… it would be similar.
            You aren’t very smart are you Sean?

        • Wow thats crazy. As a law abiding citizen who wants REAL criminals especially violent MURDERING criminals behind bars I ALSO say who cares about conviction rates if you are convicting innocent people. One wrong conviction and you messed up your whole good rating. You undid all the right convictions cause another prosecutor not looking for numbers to roll high might have did a good enough and careful job not to put somebody behind bars that was innocent. You do your best to get the bad guys behind bars when its proven beyond a reasonable doubt but you don’t push to put innocent folks in jail, that makes them criminals and They should be put behind bars why should they get immunity or a measly slap on the wrist when this type of stuff is revealed. It’s like encouraging them they don’t have to be responsible as long as they get the numbers. Wait isn’t that like how alot of our Government does things. This needs to stop. We are people NOT numbers.

      • Wrong. Death would be the best deterrent. It would make the rest of these assholes live in fear should they lie or screw up. To change the behavior they must live in a state of immediate fear for their life should they violate the rights of any person, omit any evidence, or in any way hinder the defense. If we’re going to live by the opinions of others, the punishments for adversely steering those opinions towards a faulty conclusion must be extreme , and delivered in a spectacular and public fashion so as to serve as a useful deterrent. Perhaps the video of the execution of previous prosecutors needs to be played in court at the beginning of each trial and the prosecution made to watch , and sign a document declaring they accept that this will be their fate if they too commit malfeasance.

        • Wow! What a statement. In the mean time, until we get there, if ever, I suggest preparing a statement for both the Prosecutor and the Judge, with blank slots for their written name and their signature and date and witnesses. The document should plainly read, (for the Prosecutor).

          “I, _____ have never used fabricated evidence, am not now using fabricated evidence, nor will I ever use fabricated evidence, to gain ANY conviction. I have never withheld exculpatory evidence, am not now withholding exculpatory evidence, nor will I ever withhold exculpatory evidence. I have never knowingly solicited or allowed false testimony, I am not now knowingly soliciting or allowing false testimony, nor will I ever knowingly solicit false testimony.” x___________, Date___, Witnesses x________ x_________

          and the Judge’s should state, “I, ______ have never allowed fabricated evidence, or knowingly false testimony to take place in any Court I preside over, and I am not now allowing fabricated evidence or knowingly false testimony to take place in this court now, nor will I ever allow fabricated evidence, or knowingly false testimony to take place in any court I preside over, AND I will not ever allowed any prosecutor to withhold exculpatory evidence, am not now allowing the prosecutor to withhold exculpatory evidence, nor will I ever allow the prosecutor to withhold exculpatory evidence.” x____________ Date _____, Witness _____
          Witness_________

          If either the Prosecutor or the Judge refuses to complete and sign and date these two documents in front of credible witnesses, so that they can be entered into the court record of the case, they both should be removed from office by the people in the city, county, state in that area.

          • . . There can not be a worse situation than to be grabbed by a person in so called authority and have your freedom taken away for something you did not do. . You lose everything you have ever worked for and everything you will ever hope for. . It must feel like a story from the Twilight Zone. .

      • What was that? THE CODE OF HAMMURABI? That lawyer cost a man 30 years, the lawyer should get 30 years.
        IF not getting 30 years, the lawyer should be forced to pay what that man would’ve earned in those 30 years and pay the JAIL system for what was his incarceration costs.
        In any case, that lawyer is probably already invested in the public pension fund of his area. LOSING his law license only means he retires early, collects his pension and suffers no real consequence.

        • Re read her statement. She is not agreeing with the sentence the lawyer got either…..She seems outraged like everyone else!

      • prosecutors & cops only think is a win or close the case. U C it all the time. Put prosecutors & cops in jail for life, you’ll C the BS stop & fast.

    • Not only that but all personal wealth of the prosecutor/investigator should be forfeit to the victim (Because what else would you call a person willfully wrongfully accused and convicted)

    • I agree they should be subject to the same penalty as the defendant was, including the death penalty, when police prosecutors and judges lie in criminal cases, their penalty should be the same as the defendant.

        • at least ten times longer, and they should have to forfeit all financial assests acquired during the period of the innocent mans incareation. I wouldnt even be opposed to the death penalty for crooked prosecutors and police officers.

    • Hell with finish, make him serve not only the time the innocent person served but also the rest of his natural life.

    • I must disagree, sir. The prosecutor must not finish the sentence (though, in this case, it wouldn’t matter). He should be required to serve the entirety of the original sentence, or the maximum sentence for the crime he illegally prosecuted the innocent for, whichever is greater when the term is run consecutively. This should be the law, with no deferment from the mandatory minimums allowed for any reason.

    • I’ll accept that WHEN IT IS INTENTIONAL (as it appears to be in this case). There have been folks who have been freed after long periods in prison because DNA proved their innocence (as it did in this case); however the old “blood grouping” tests were used and the person convicted and sentenced did fall into the “group” (and the DA in question hid nothing – nor did law enforcement). Those folks thought they were convicting the right person (not just closing a case) and don’t deserve any penalty.

      • Oh I beg to differ! Ken Anderson DID withhold evidence i.e. the bandana found in the woods as physical evidence and multiple statements about the suspicious person and vehicle. By Ken Anderson withholding evidence, not cooperating with other nearby Police agencies and concentrating on Michael Morton, the real killer was allowed to remain free to commit a very similar murder in Austin with a crime scene almost identical to the Morton murder.

      • I’m sure Mr. Anderson thought he was convicting the right person…he just didn’t want to let the facts interfere with the conviction of who he thought was responsible. Or, he just didn’t want the truth to affect his stellar record.

        We need to start rewarding those who achieve JUSTICE, including dropping charges where the facts warrant this. The current system gives incentive for CONVICTIONS–which discourages dismissals.

        Their job is supposed to be to get to the truth. Make the incentives match the goal or we sacrifice justice.

    • Finish the sentence , my a$$. He should be ordered to SERVE the sentence plus anytime the innocent man had served. That would slow them down.

    • 10 days will be in the local county jail….safe. Not in a real prison yard where the big ole bad boys can geta hold of him….you hear it more and more I believe half the people in prison may be innocent.

  10. Justice system was always used to control the people and never to find JUSTICE at all ,,,,real reason the lady stature holds the Scales and is blind folded –mean exactly what is is made to “””JUSTICE IS BLIND”””” literally?

  12. Ok so only 10 days, make it 10 days in the state prison, general population with all the convicts he put there 🙂

  13. He should have to give up his benefits and give him to the guy he wronged. Maybe the prosecutor needs people to throw rotten tomatoes at him. Just put the prosecutor in stocks outside for ten days. Let everyone throw rotten tomatoes at him for them ten days.

  14. I’m pretty sure the inoccent guy can take the lawyer to civil court and sue the ass off of him…the Ten days were probably given him by the state.

  15. This guy should at minimum get 15 years in prison since he withheld evidence which led to wrongful imprisonment. That’s a way to deter others from doing this again. And it should be in the same prison the other guy served. The media coverage these days tempts too many lawyers on both sides to want to be the next Johnny Cochran and the star of their own OJ or Casey Anthony trial. Justice hasn’t become the priority only wins and fame.

  16. “It’s hard to imagine losing a spouse to a senseless act of violence. It’s
    even harder to imagine being wrongfully prosecuted for the crime and
    spending the next 25 years in jail.”

    If you have ever had any with the corrupt system, especially prosecutors, it isn’t hard to imagine at all.

    The overwhelming majority of prosecutors have no scruples whatsoever. They couldn’t care less about the truth. They hold the ordinary citizen in total contempt and see him as nothing more than some thing to use for their own self aggrandizement. They care only about getting a conviction. Whether or not the person they are prosecuting is guilty or innocent is to them totally irrelevant.

    Look at the George Zimmerman case if proof is needed.

    • To be fair, the state had no intention of trying Zimmerman but the “outrage” and accusations of racism from the Black community forced them to.

      • They lied and put Zimmerman and the Constitution through Hell anyway regardless of their intentions. The state of Florida should have stood up to the lynch mob.

      • The Black community did put a lot of pressure on them but no one in the prosecutor’s office stood up and said something like this. ” I will resign my position before I will knowingly prosecute an innocent man!”

        • I wouldn’t go anywhere near as far as saying Zimmerman was innocent but he guilt was nowhere near provable enough to have taken to trial (especially w/the charges brought) which is what the original investigators concluded. may not make for headlines & ratings but sometimes the evidence just doesn’t fit the preferred racial storyline (or at least once you scratch the surface) & admitting as much does not make one a cross burner…

          • “I wouldn’t go anywhere near as far as saying Zimmerman was innocent”.

            Why not? There was not a shred of evidence to indicate that the incident went down any way but as George said it did. Even the witnesses against him supported his version of the story. George Zimmerman is innocent. Period.

          • If 10,000 people witnessed the event and Zimmerman had shot him 2,000 times you would defend him. And we know why.

      • Just because they had no “intention” of trying him DOESN’T mean he is innocent. It just means the system is racist and unjust.

    • look at the David Camm case. the detectives never looked for the killer or followed evidence….

    • Zimmerman is a pu$$y a$$ racist prick who murdered a child in cold blood. His wife is a lying sack of $hit, and I’m glad he attacked her after lying for his sorry a$$. He only beat it because of his dad’s connections, and I hope he is killed slowly and painfully.

  17. I do not care if he gets 10 days as long as it is in general population in a hi-security prison.

  18. The lawyer lost his license. If I was the guy who did 25 years, I’d be following the lawyer and try to make sure he never gets his license back again.

  20. The Prosecutor should have to serve the same sentence THEY (the prosecutors)are supposed to be looking for the Truth not Convictions.

  21. Sounds like a 1983 action to me. Further, there had to be more people involved than just the prosecutor. Others involved in the investigation had to know.

  22. Not unusual for prosecutors to lie. I mean…they ARE lawyers and are formally trained in the “art” of deception.

  24. Since the prosecutor withheld crucial evidence that sent an innocent man to prison and let a guilty man go free, wouldn’t that be aiding and abetting ? Or a conspiracy charge? What are the punishments for those charges? He should have to receive the punishment for which he is guilty.

  25. If Morton is smart he will shoot Anderson.

    If I am called to be a juror for it, he will walk.

  26. Legal system cannot be trusted. Made up of the good ole boys club, where they look out for each other. Somebody should just shoot the bastard.

  28. If did 25 because of a lie the the other should have to do 25 because of his lie. A lie for a lie. Or or something like that.

  29. What kind of compensation will this man and his child get?? AHHH sorry, our bad, have a nice day.. BS.. after BS like this, people who our found innocent because the courts botched the case, should get lottery winning type cash! Not only was his life ruined his child grew up without a father and was lead to believe he killed his mother.

  30. Brings to mind what our very own Commonwealths Attorney Dave Stengel tried to do to MacKenze Mattingly. That God for a jury that could see through the bs and good defemse attornies.

  31. Brings to mind what our very own Commonwealths Attorney
    tried to do to MacKenzie Mattingly.
    Thank for good defense attorneys and a jury that could see through the
    bs. Of course Stengel is now retired and
    in addition to the very generous state pension he is now working for our ever
    so honest Attorney General Jack Conway making right at $120,000.00 a year. Life is grand in Kentucky if you’re a poll
    with a (D) next to your name.

    • Political parties are a divide and conquer strategy. We the people are actually more unified than any major news networks would have you believe.

  32. Brings to mind what our very own Commonwealths Attorney
    tried to do to MacKenzie Mattingly.
    Thank Gpd for good defense attorneys and a jury that could see through
    the bs. Of course Stengel is now retired
    and in addition to the very generous state pension he is now working for our
    ever so honest Attorney General Jack Conway making right at $120,000.00 a
    year. Life is grand in Kentucky if you’re
    a poll with a (D) next to your name.

  33. They need to make sure he is in general population!! A few of the prisoners will take care of him!!

  34. In Florida it is a business for pussycuters to lie in court,with hold evidence and stage a completely different scene that would show a person innocent~ The Bush’s own a company called prison industries which uses the inmates as labor!

    • could the 2 people who voted this down please contact me so that you can pay my tax bill. Private prisons rake it $90,000 per inmate per year. Seems as if you have extra money, if you believe this doesn’t go on. Please take the time to investigate the number of innocent people put to death in this country who were exonerated after they were murdered. Its big business and many, too many innocent people are put in prison due to prosecutor misconduct.

  35. They go for the easy conviction. Guilt or innocence has nothing to so with it. If he knowingly convicted the wrong person he should serve the same amount of time plus a punishment

  36. Many people in law enforcement have no consiounse,prosecutors are looking for wins on their records not the truth…
    The real criminals in the country work in the court houses…

  38. This is really a lesson for juries. Do not convict unless the person is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. William Blackstone once said “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”, Jurors need to remember this ALWAYS.

    • I’ve been on two juries (was foreperson for 2nd) – it’s sad/scary how many people believe “well, they wouldn’t go through the trouble of prosecuting him & spending the $ if he wasn’t guilty!” fortunately they were in the minority & we were able to swing them. in my 1st case I’m not going to say the guy was 100% innocent but I was shocked when after the trial the prosecutor asked us what he did wrong/what he could have done to convince us. I forget what I actually said but it was far more polite than what I was thinking: “um, actually have a case? how did you even get a grand jury to return an indictment on this?”

  40. Actually, it was only four days, reduced because of good behavior or whatever criteria that’s used. His assistant flunkie, John Bradley, who took over after Anderson was promoted, and KEPT the man locked up, fighting Morton’s appeal for years, for DNA testing, wasn’t even charged, suffering only loss of his job by the voters, who campaigned against Bradley using bandanas pinned to his campaign signs . . . . sorry, sorry bastards, the bunch of them . . . .

  42. Find that prosecutor’s address, hunt him down and kill him. I’m serious. This kind of BULLSHIT flies in the face of everyone’s common sense and decency. 10 days is a joke and an insult to the victim family, which suffered horribly and permanently for 25yrs due to Ken Anderson’s lie. Kill that bastard.

  43. It will only take a few hundred ‘men’ who believe in justice like I do, to work non-stop at making Ken Anderson’s life unbearable. I’ve had it with stories like this. We have a right, as citizens, to act. I don’t care if people disagree… let’s just do it and send a message. Any takers? We could start a movement, one that would hopefully change the way future prosecutors act, and scare the piss out of any who would dare corrupt justice like this again.

    • I agree with making his life unbearable, there are a lot of prosecutors and judges like this out there, trouble is you hear about it to late, need a nation wide campaine, cops are just as bad, in IL iroquois county the put a nan on death row, they knew he was inocent, Connie chune on 60 minutes finaly brought out evidene on tv to get his conviction over turned

  44. There was a punishment in the Royal Navy called “flogging around the fleet’. That would be appropriate here.

  45. The Judge who gives the prosecutor only 10 days should be beaten on the street or stoned in the ancient way. Such punishment should also be given to the prosecutor.

  46. “Innocent Man Gets Dead Wife and 25 Years in Jail; Lying Prosecutor Gets 10 Days in Prison”…the justice system in the USA, in the 21st century…

  47. Pondering this further, since killing Ken Anderson would be illegal… I think a fitting outcome is for him to forfeit all earnings, property, and investments made during that 25 years, and give it to the victim and his daughter. Sound fair? That, plus a guarantee that Ken Anderson will never practice law in any shape or form again. Why not? It seems fair and it seems just.

    • I’ll be posting all personal information that I’ve gathered about ex-prosecutor Ken Anderson in a day or so, after clearing it all with an attorney. Stay tuned.

  48. I do believe this is the Judge in Williamson county in Texas. Georgetown is the county seat for Williamson county.That they are now talking about. He was a prosecutor at the time of this incident and has moved up to being a judge for about the last 10 years. And if it the same judge who they are talking about he sentence drug offenders to his private rehab center so that he can make more money of them too.

  49. Incredible. Whoever allowed just 10 days should be in prison along with the prosecutor, and they both should finance compensation for Mr. Morton who deserves an official USA apology

  50. 10 days is fine as long as they put him in the prisons general population with a shirt that says former prosecutor. Maybe ad a list of people he has sent to prison on the back.

  51. The laws governing prosecutorial misconduct are just sad. It should be a simple matter of the prosecutor serving the same sentence given the person convicted.

  52. This is not the first time this has happened. It is not an isolated case.

    And it is yet another reason why I would not extradite a pet fish to the USA.

    The casual acceptance, by the system, of railroading accused people in pursuit of high success statistics is one of the glaring issues that no-one wants to deal with

  54. Few of these stories ever get published but this is an all-too-common event that is rarely brought to light because the jail times are not so sensational. Dishonest prosecutors and dishonest cops are the norm, not the exception. And justice to them is rarely ever meted out.

  57. Yes that is what American law enforcement is about. Crooked from top to bottom. They just want the reputation.

  58. Aren’t sentences like 10 days usually done in local jail, not prisons? Time in jail and time in prison are quite different. 10 days in jail is even more ridiculous of a punishment.

    • Not true. Most prisons are not like what’s depicted on tv. Each state will have a maximum security prison for their worst, but most prisons are nothing like them because most of the inmates have been sentenced and are trying to shorten their sentenced with “time off for good behavior,” without which prisons could not operate at all since inmates do most of the work there (cooking, laundry, maintenance, etc.). Jail are filled with every nutjob and wacko waiting for trial, bond, or serving a sentence of less than 1 year. Any county jail is much worse of an environment than the ordinary state prison.

  59. I think when a Da lies about anything and causes a innocent person to be put in jail, He should be put in jail or prison for the same term that the innocent person received. Plus he should be able to be sued for damages to that person and that persons family as well ! The States att. will lie withhold evidence or whatever he or she has to do to get that conviction even if they know the defendant is innocent. They don’t care about the defendent their job is to convict that person and put them in jail at whatever cost.
    If faced with possible jail time and being sued was on the table at the time of the trial, I think the outcome of many trials would be different and the innocent wouldn’t be wrongfully put into prison as much. The way it is now the states att. is above the law, no government official should be about the law! You cannot sue a states att. for a wrongful conviction or any misdeeds that they did.

    • Lets look at this from a different perspective, ok?
      The wrongly convicted person had 25 years of his life taken from him that the state cant give back to him, right?
      Hes already paid to the state years of his life that he cant get back, right?
      Well why shouldnt he be allowed to rack up criminal acts up to thaqt level of time already served?
      Lets see assault with a deadly weapon is 6 years, the question is for the 25 years hes paid how much retribution could he get away with?
      Now that would be fair, hes paid the time hes entitled to commit the crimes.
      Before you say something about someone else being a victim, I was more thinkink it would be karma if it was against the prosecutor, his wife and imediate family.
      Whats the penalty for not killing the prosecutor but leaving him a mental vegtable?
      If he got aids while in prison whats the penalty for forceably giving that to the prosecutor, his wife and kids?
      If I was on that jury I would nullify the case.
      And save the two wrongs dont make it right because the prosecutor is worse because he did it under color of office.
      Not saying the guy should or should not do it, but hes already paid the time and the guy wronged him fully knowing that he could get away with it.
      Before anyof you get preachy you sit by and keep electing these jereks.
      Before you say anything take all that you have and give it to him, otherwise shut up.

  60. he should spend the same amount of time as the innocent guy and lose all his possessions that should be given to the innocent guy things like this wouldn’t happen as often if those who perjure or withhold key evidence themselfs to get a conviction

  61. That prosecutor should have been sentenced to spend the exact same number of days the innocent man he railroaded into prison had to spend in prison.

    A sentence of 10 days will only serve to reinforce this behavior, and it sets a dangerous precedent for future prosecutors, making sure they get light sentences because this guy got one.

  62. I’m SURE the TRIAL lawyers group of the ABA, DEMOCRATS ALL, will file a protest and get this cretin’s law license re-instated. I hear even Eric Holder is trying to create a position for him…maybe as an ObamaCare ‘navigator’.

      • Because of your LOW INFORMATION, I understand your concern. According to ALL reports I have EVER SEEN, and there HAVE BEEN MANY, show that 90% of TRIAL LAWYERS VOTE DEMOCRATIC! I have YET seen ANYTHING refute THAT claim!

  63. I think that he should be tossed into general population and the inmates told what he is in there for. That could make his 10 day sentence a lifetime.

    If he survives his time in prison, he should lose everything that he owns. The state will have to retry half of his convictions and he certainly owes this man far more than he can possibly pay.

  64. The prosecutor should serve the same amount of time. The big problem is that this happens too often

  65. The problem is, he is a lawyer, and lawyers wont hurt their own badly. They protect each other with laws like that one, obviously a person that is not a lawyer could never be effect by the law that allows only ten days for with holding evidence.
    But alas….. soon it will all be forgotten, till the next scum sucking lawyer cheats and again special laws will allow for easy punishment

  66. It should not be a surprise. Our so-called “legal system” was devised by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers. It is broke.

  67. Anyone who believe OJ was found not guilty of murders he committed because he had a high-priced defense team must also admit that any ordinary person can be found guilty when they are actually innocent because they have a low-priced defense team as in public defender.

  68. This prosecutor took an oath to uphold the law and the Constitution. He violated that oath and cost an innocent may 25 years of his life and thus should be required to pay the innocent man every penny he would have earned in that period plus some very high punitive damages AND the prosecutor should spend 25 years in prison and forfeit everything he owns to the victim’s family here. The judge that gave him ten days should join him at least for the first year. The original judge should also be held accountable.

  69. I’m so tired of the justice system in this country. It’s all about getting convictions at any cost.

  71. How about making it mandatory that all prosecutors must be required , under oath, to state “I have disclosed ALL information relevant to this case” to be convicted of perjury.if it not true.

  72. The courts are not going to make officers, prosecutors or any official pay back nor be punished as due. They are afraid it would set precedence for their own mistakes.

  73. this kind of thing happens way too often…both the police and prosecutors believe that the end justifies the means….same as hitler felt……plus they will lie, plant evidence, rearrange crime scenes, and whatever they need to do to either convict someone…the one they believe is guilty not necessarily the one proven guilty by evidence…I know…I’ve been there and seen it happen…..cop lied and planted evidence against me to attempt to convict me and not look like an ass when he claimed I had a gun but could not find it in my apartment later that night….put hollow point bullets in my target round box and just happened to find a spent cartridge outside my apartment that matched. too bad for him the fdle ballistics expert stated that those hollow points were typically “police loads, not available on the street”

  74. From the

    U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 73 › § 1512

    18 U.S. Code
    (c)
    Whoever corruptly—

    (1)
    alters, destroys, mutilates, or
    conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with
    the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in
    an official proceeding; or

    (2)
    otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,

    shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

  77. What a monster to be depriving a child of his sole surviving parent and leaving it to be brought up without knowing what parental love is.
    What a monster to be condemning someone with the knowledge that his child is left to the vagaries of this world while the child’s dad – he, is unable to do anything about it though being innocent.
    How mean can we possibly get….

  78. Ya its disgusting justice and florida just pased a law to allow it without justice for the falsley acused and targeted by malicious prosecutors involved in organized crime or hate crimes against the inocent. A law that needs repeal and prosecution of the legislators involved

  80. The lying prosecutor is just part of the problem. The largest issue is being tried by 12 people too stupid to find a way out of jury duty, and who want to get it over with, and go home. A man was just convicted in Spokane, WA under just exactly the same circumstances. No motive, no witness, no evidence of any type; only the prosecutor’s word that, “He could have do it” The 12 idiots sent the man up for life.

  81. I wish there was a law that if anyone knowingly provided false witness or knowingly concealed evidence that resulted in the conviction of an innocent person, should be sentenced to whatever the innocent person had been sentenced to.

  83. This so called prosecutor,should be made to serve 25 years in prison,just like the time this innocent man did…

  84. police are corrupt end of story. i have been arrested a few times for things ive done, never anything bad violent etc. but i also have been arrested and tried for 7 arrests on things i didn’t do and the cops know i didn’t do anything etc. they lie, trick you, fabricate witness statements. they break civil laws and don’t give a shit. i however dont agree that they should be put away for the same sentence. i do however think they should be put away for 1/2 the sentence confined to solitary with no human contact, forfeit all the money and possessions to the wrongfully accused. i alone have had to spend $14,000 on lawyer fees and bail on thing that never happened. ive also had the police chief off merrimack nh try to get me to pay the department a “donation” of $500 to throw the case out in court….lol donation, the legal way of saying bribe…its truly repulsive.

  85. The incompetence of the police and corruption of the prosecutor didn’t just cost this innocent man, it also cost a woman her life. About two years later, in the same area, another young mother was murdered in her home. That man was caught using the DNA that was on that bandana that was finally tested, over the objection of the prosecutor. Watch the CNN news show about the case for the whole story. To sum it up, second woman died, innocent man gets 25 yrs. taken from him. Just another day in the Texas justice system.

  86. Bureaucrats, especially state employees, including judges, routinely deny constitutional rights to anyone they target, and do so with full immunity for their crimes. Tennessee, based on multiple judicial watch dog groups, has the most corrupt state government in the nation. The Tennessee Dept of Labor has proudly raised the abuse of its citizens to an art form. Pay-to-Play, extortion, slander, are all just part of their work day.

  87. Old people are buying guns to administer justice to people like this – hell we don’t care we got money for attorneys and will postpone and delay til we’re dead. if we do have to go to prison for a cpl yrs b4 we die big deal. for many seniors that’s an improvement to their standard of living – 3 squares a day, warm bed, exercise, tv etc

  88. Serious? What bullshit. I’ve been following this for a few years and am disturbed that someone has the ability to indoctrinate anyone around me on the flimsy of evidence and get away with it. Anderson is awful. Can you imagine knowing that you kept a guy locked up so you could further your career?

    I should say hello to NSA since they have this communication logged. There are no rights anymore.

  89. It’s not perjury and the trial was so long ago the statute of limitations has long past, then you have the “shield laws” on top of that.
    The DA should have gone after him for Obstruction of Justice and claimed, that this obstruction took place “every day” he allowed an innocent man to remain in jail,.

    • i agree. and the way to get around your first argument, is that this family and the 2nd victims’ family should have a law passed that eliminates the SOL, when there’s blatant lies and fabrication, knowing they are sending an innocent person to prison. i bet they will always think twice.

  90. prosecutor just want to lock people up. They see it as a win between them.they should have to admit they were wrong. and let the people{judge} punish him.

  91. Prosecutor should get 10-days for every day the man served. If we continue to allow prosecutors to get away with abusing the public trust, people may feel justified in murdering prosecutors.

  92. You can not put a price on 25 years of prison being served by an innocent man. Nothing done to the prosecutor can change it. At first I was thinking death was the only fitting punishment, but 25 years in GP would be better.

  93. Apparently, the prosecutor owes the victim 25 years of wages, and the family of the real killers second victim a life.

      • then so be it. if tax payers don’t want to be stuck with footing these funds, then the govt. should hold these prosecutors as well as law enforcement who also, break laws or withold evidence, thereby convicting an innocent person, strict and harsh prison terms. then, these ba****s will think twice before doing this mess.

        • Except th govt. never has and never will hold them accountable. even citizens found 2 police officers not guilty of beating an innocent homeless man to death after watching it with their own eyes…now what?

          • i couldn’t agree with you more. nothing ever changes in the law, as i’m suggesting, is until it happens to the law makers. its wishful thinking. and yes, i was sickened about the homeless mans death and their not being held accountable.

          • We are being intentionally pushed into a civil disturbance. Candidates for police officers with an IQ over 100 are being turned down. Officers who question orders are discharged. Officers are asked questions like “are there any circumstances you would NOT fire on fellow americans” Psycopaths like Joe Arpaio are being elected and re-elected to office, despite paying out over 50 million $ in wrongful death and civil rights violation.

          • Arpaio is not a psychopath. Everything that he has ever done is to enforce the law. If you will stop allowing “feelings” get in the way, you sir realize he is trying to stop what Obama is allowing. Obama wants to allow all of the illegals to vote so that the Marxist progressives, are you by chance one of them?, to rule and destroy our nation. Arpaio is merely following federal law that has been on the books for decades.

          • Please explain to me how denying an AMERICAN her insulin until she dies an agonizing death is in any way getting illegals out of the country? Eplain how having his men beat to death an AMERICAN citizen is upholding the law. Explain how his embezzlement of jail funds is even CLOSE to upholding the law. Let me guess…you don’t care as long as brown people are made uncomfortable.

  94. Yep, welcome to our “wonderful” judicial system, happens all the time !! And if you think it can’t happen to YOU, think again !!! We should be more afraid of the police, court systems, prosecutors and judges than we are of street criminals….because they are immune and protected to cause harm……….and they know it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  95. America, land of the free; where justice is bought and authorities never see accountability. What a great country we live in. I remember the horror stories I was told about other countries and how we were better. What a lie that was. We are just as bad as Nazi Germany ever was.

  96. The sentence should be that he spends a day in jail for every day that the innocent spent in jail.

  97. Ten days is bullshit. They need to strip the prosecutor naked cane his ass then throw him in prison for the amount of time as the victim 25 years plus 10 days. No clothes and only bread and water. No steak, no TV, no books. NOTHING!!!!

  98. its because of stories like this and there are many others, why i don’t agree with the way sheriff arpaio treats the guest in his jail. not everyone who’s in jail or prison are guilty of the crimes committed. and i’m sure people were yelling “off with his head” when in fact the one that have lost there head is the prosecutor. this is wrong on every level. now, the person who actually did this was free to kill another woman. this is exactly why the family of the 2nd victim should sue the state, the city, and the prosecutions office. but for, factor strong in this case.

  99. question… how many of you would have been fine with him receiving the death penalty, then to find out after it was carried out, he was innocent all along and here’s the evidence to prove it, still think that the death penalty is still a good idea?

    • i’ve seen worse actually. there’s one case where a guy was found guilty and the courts refused to allow for a new trial even when in one case, the def. atty. slept through the trial, and the same happened in another case when the judge did the same thing.

  101. Maybe someone will put a hit out on that POS lawyer. No doubt he’ll beck watching his back for the next 25 years while he flips burgers. And I hope when he dies it’s as brutal as that woman’s murder combined with the fun of 25 years of incarceration

  102. A prosecutor did this and gets ten days in jail? You’ve got to be kidding. Most of these jerks are trying to make a name for themselves. This creep should spend 25 years in prison and the innocent man should get a huge settlement for this injustice.

  103. guess you know judges were lawyers 1st, so they protect their own! We need to be tougher on judges too when they get out of line!

  105. While I do agree with most here about how wrong this is I must also call BS on most of these posts.
    Imagine if you will, say 5 years back, a story about a man in prison who was convicted of this crime, speaking out against harsh treatment in prison. The thread would be full of posters, many like yourselves, saying how all prisoners should be put to death, who cares what those scum want, ect…. Happens online all the time!

    How easy you all forge that our system is broken and many who are incarcerated should not be. But for some reason, once in prison, most in the US couldn’t give a crap about them! However, if someone like myself tries to point that out it is met with anger and disbelief.

  106. Tape recording of a 3 year old? Uncorroborated report of a prowler in the area? These hardly sound like absolute proof of innocence! This was within the prosecutor’s discretion.

    Sorry an an innocent man was convicted and sentenced, but this is why we have trials and counsel for the defense, which doesn’t seem to have done much of a job.

  107. officers of the court (lawyers, policemen, etc.) get away with this kind of stuff all the time. it’s a damned shame.

  108. There should be life trade, a lifestyle trade. The exonerated man should get all property belonging to the true criminal, the prosecutor. The prosecutor should get the full sentence he handed down to the innocent man. THAT would be JUSTICE. After a few of these situations, DAs and PAs would take notice!

  109. The liar should be forced to spend 25 years in the same prison cell that Morton did, then when he gets out, he should pay Morton a living wage each year that he spent in prison, HIT THEIR POCKETBOOKS, that will stop a bunch of this illegal prosecution….

  110. who gave this sentence, what Judge, need to VOTE that judge out of job,TAKE ACTION, write his office, your representative telling them this is not good enough…

  111. Just think of the affect this had on his child. Very sad that the system only works for the officials (brother in-law system). That lawyer(prosecutor) should have to finish the sentence that was given to the innocent party. What he done was against the law.

  112. Prosecutors are part of Government. Under the U.S. Patriot Act, it is ILLEGAL to accuse or suspect Government of any kind of wrong-doing.

  113. X-prosecutor needs to go live in prison, permanently and pay the wrongfully accused his personal earnings for the past 25 years the wrongfully accused sat in hell. Even then the poor person will never ever get back what that A hole took from him !!

  115. Maybe I am missing something…Doesn’t the headline say “Innocent man gets dead wife”…What does that mean?

  116. hopefully that at least means he loses his license permanently and will be unable to get one in any other state

  117. RI is full of corrupt lawyers and judges. The General Assembly is full of corrupt Democrats and the Voters are too stupid to change the way they vote. RI is sinking fast thanks to the Zombie voting Democrats.

  118. No justice when one of the King’s Dragoons violates the laws of the land. If there is no law in America: so be it. Let us teach these swine what anarchy means.

  119. Prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity from civil liability, even if it is proved that they intentionally violated every Right in the book to maliciously wrongfully imprison an individual. There is no criminal liability either. Ten days is a contempt of Court charge. WTF?

  121. This is America. Too many cops and prosecutors are out to get people because the culture of policing and prosecuting often attracts the wrong type of people who are not out to protect people’s rights and easily abuse their power. Too many instances of false arrest and excessive force by cops and too many cases of prosecutorial misconduct, bullying and unfair prosecution that does not make society safer.

    When a person is accused of committing a real crime like rape or murder, the prosecutor, judge and jury better believe very much so that he did it. People on the jury are often so willing to believe what the police say when history shows police often are the biggest liars and most corrupt people as are the prosecutors. Judges also bully juries into believing that they have to convict when a person has the right to exercise his or her right to jury nullification and vote not guilty if he or she doesn’t agree with the law or possible punishment.

    For those who say people who are convicted of a crime should be put in a cage and left to rot, even if a person did the horrible crime and we all know how many innocent people have been put in prison, they are still human and have a family and should be treated with respect and not abused. If a person has demonstrated that he is a grave risk to society because of his actions (rape, murder) and has to be confined, he still has human rights and should be treated well. So often people talk about punishment but the only ones entitled to punishment are the victims or their families. And bc most of,society doesn’t want to live in a world of never ending retribution, if someone did nothing to you, you are a third party and have no right to punish. All prisoners should be treated how you would want to be treated in their shoes. You don’t end violence and evil by treating people evil or with abuse and violence.

  122. I hope that scum bag meets up with either the same kind of criminal that murdered the innocent man’s wife, either in prison or after release, or he himself does the world a favor and kills himself. When I read about puss bags like him, I think of the Bill Hicks stick on marketing professionals, but to include outrageously criminal cops, attorneys, judges, prosecutors, presidents, priests, solders and all the rest of the people that purport to be above reproach, but sink to the lowest depths of depravity, victimizing people in a sneaky yet public underhanded way. Of coarse the man he stole 25 years of life from at a time in his life he was most wounded from loosing his wife would be most motivated to smite the man that lost his law license. I wouldn’t fault him, but most people no matter what the wrong just don’t have the desire for killing, unlike Barry Soetoro, who also lost his law license and gloats about being good at murdering people( he used the term killing) So we see what our public servants really are.

  123. the legal system is the biggest joke. People who knowingly do things like that should be executed, to even the playing field

  126. Prosecutors are supposed to be without bias, but we all know most people who take that job are just using it and the taxpayers as a stepping stone into Politics or Private High Paid Legal work. Those using the job, have a bias, they do NOT want to lose any cases. So if they think someone guilty and move ahead with charges, and later discover the suspect is NOT guilty via investigation, often they just bury that evidence and convict the innocent person to score a win and secure their future plans. We the people need to recognize this for what it is. Selfish people pretending to be “Public Servants”, to use the position to better there own goals. Meaning they are nothing but self-serving, and we all know the story about having “Two Masters”.

    We will have crooked politicians, cops and prosecutors as long as we allow them to live ABOVE the law. People who accept jobs with power over others lives, must be held to a higher standard. Currently there is NO standard, just “Policies” and “Practices”, like instructing someone to violate someone’s human rights makes it all “ok”; which is often the result of most Police abuse/murder case investigations.

    And even when we find direct provable criminal actions, like in this case, the penalty, if there is one, is nearly always, nothing but a slap on the wrist. Consider; 10 days in jail for imprisoning an innocent man for 25 years. Justice? NOT even close. Restitution? No one is considering the victim.

    Justice in my opinion would have the prosecutor spending at least 3 years in prison, and forced to pay restitution to the victim of 25% of whatever the Prosecutor has earned over the last 25 years. Besides losing his license, he should be banned from any “Public Service” job! If he has a taxpayer funded pension, it should be forfeited to the victim, who sat in a cage and was denied the opportunity to work and create a retirement plan due to the criminal actions of this man. But…Justice is no longer welcome in many of our courts in this day of BIG Crooked Government.

  127. It should be mandatory that if a prosecutor is found guilty he should spend one day for everyday the innocent spent in prison!! Also put him in the exact same jail cell!

  128. The hypocrisy of the bastard judges and prosecutors who claim to represent justice is truly disgusting. This prosecutor should have done 20 years for unlawful imprisonment.

  129. If he’s done this to one person how many more has he done the same thing to. If it was me he did this too he would have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life.

  131. Every conviction he was involved with should be questioned now. He is a known evidence manipulator. How many more of his victims are languishing in prison right now? How many other innocent Americans had their lives destroyed by this guy?

  133. This is just one case in many and he can count himself very, very lucky they, the “judicial” system let him use that DNA to exonerate him. The Supreme Court is to hear some cases in regards to convicted persons trying to get the DNA from their trials tested because they say they are innocent and State legislatures in some States are passing laws to prevent them from doing it even when the convicted person wants to pay for it.

    What we all need to be concerned about that …They are purposely passing laws to prevent you, me or anyone caught in this very same legal nightmare, to be able to prove we are innocent. Now why would anyone think that is a good thing? We need to really watch what is coming out as law. it could be you or me tomorrow who fall victim to the crazy people who are writing them..

  136. Evil prosecutors should spend the entire time in prison that the innocent did. Malicious prosecutors should be severely punished.

  137. Corrupt prosecutors should not only serve the same sentences they [fraudulently] win in judgment…they should serve additional to time for any crimes committed by the ‘real’ perpetrators, as well. Same with any police officers that engage in this criminal behavior. In addition to convicting an innocent person, they’re also exposing the public to more crime, by not finding the real criminal(s).

  138. this is disgusting!…..they essentially killed this man with out killing him outright! where are the lawyers and lawsuits? immunity? wth!! so they are saying that d.a’s can not be prosecuted themselves? wow! no wonder it happened! they had better fix that whole immunity thing!!!

  139. The USA does not have a justice system . We have an injustice system. America now has the largest prison population in all of human history. No other nation comes close, not even China. Over 200,000 over 200,000 Americans are raped in prisons every year. Almost every jail has a black chair used to torture prisoners. Our police and prosecutors are a disgrace to God, Jesus, and the human race. Our police are known to tamper with evidence, even DNA is planted, are known to be violent, are known to invade homes and kill the unarmed, are known to distribute drugs, all with immunity to the law. Our nations most violent criminals and drug distributors have a badge. Police and Correction officers actually receive full disability and retire because they claim to hate Black and Latino people. It is considered a valid mental illness. America is now One Land under Satan, The Land of the Free is The Land of the Caged. Please treat people as Jesus taught us, read warningfromgod, and store a one year supply of food.

  140. WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT,THAT PROSECUTER SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR A HELL OF ALOT LONGER THAN 10 DAYS,,MUST BE SUCKING THE JUDGE OFF

  142. If they’re only giving him ten days he’s likely doing it in a county jail, not prison. Sounds like someone needs to cut Morton a check for $25 Million, nothing less.

  143. When any court officer intentionally commits such an act they should get a sentence equal in time the the one the wronged person got with not possibility of early release.

  144. This case is a great example of our failed lagal system. The fact that some prosecutors can withhold evidence (usually with no one elses knowledge), is a serious breach of the legal system. They do it simply to further their careers, and could care less about the possible innocense of the accused. The penalty for their despicable criminal act should be severe.
    They destroy lives, families and entire futures simply because they want to get somebody, anybody, as long as it benefits them. What disgusting humans they are. I rate them below terorists, because the pain they inflict can lasts a lifetime.

  145. This is why Our justice systems is in such bad shape. They need to prosecute the hell out of this lawyer. Throw him in jail for 25years. That is only fair. It is what he did to this innocent man. That would make the lawyers think twice about lying in court.

  146. The criminal prosecutor’s sentence should be the same as that he helped impose on the wrong man by lying. Loss of license and 10 days is mocking justice. I thought Texas was better than that.

  148. That prosecutor should be shot. Anyone who cares about justice should feel entitled to kill him for his crimes. You don’t steal a part of a mans life and expect to live, do you? Scumbag better watch his back for the rest of his life.

  149. The guilty person is serving a life sentence for another murder – if he had been convicted for this murder, maybe the other one wouldn’t have happened.

  150. You all must feel pretty good talking about the penalty for the crooked prosecutor, but why don’t you REALLY take action? Everyone in the ‘justice’ system needs to be hung.

  151. Didn’t they say the other guy who did it also committed another murder? Shouldn’t the prosecutor be held liable for the 2nd murder the guy did since it sounds like it was AFTER this wrongful conviction of an innocent man?

  152. I believe if a prosecutor knowingly uses manufactured evidence, perjured testimony or suppresses exculpatory evidence, he should serve the ENTIRE sentence of the wrongly convicted. and the MAXIMUM sentence excluding possibility of parole.

    If the wrongly convicted is executed so should the prosecutor.

    BTW: If the original charges include rape, the time served should exclude “administrative segregation” I.E. they serve their time in general population.

    As for the “cruel and unusual” exclusion in the constitution?
    Prosecutors take their oath of office voluntarily, they can surrender certain of their rights in exchange for the power and responsibility

  153. With “criminal justice” in this country as it is, I’m actually amazed the prosecutor spent any time in jail at all. Most of them get promoted for this sort of behavior.

  156. It’s not enough.. but I know it’s 10 days more than he’d ever thought he’d spend in prison for doing it.

  157. It’s not enough.. but I know it’s 10 days more than he’d ever thought he’d spend in prison for doing it.

  159. He should go to prison and the county that allowed this conviction should be forced to pay him reparations for his lost time because their employee was a self important lying douche bag and abused his office.

  160. Based on wrongful imprisonment compensation in Texas, Michael Morton is OWED:
    $80,000 per year of wrongful incarceration (that’s $2 MILLION), as well as $25,000 per year spent on parole or as a registered sex offender (doesn’t pertain), plus an annuity (the state law doesn’t say how much that is).
    PLUS
    Compensation for child support payments (may or may not pertain – depends on who raised his son while he was in prison), tuition for up to 120 hours at a career center or public institution of higher learning, and reentry and reintegration services, including life skills, job and vocational training for as long as those services are beneficial. In addition, the state provides necessary documentation (i.e. a state ID card) and financial assistance to cover living expenses. Help is also provided to access medical and dental services, including assistance in completing documents required for application to federal entitlement programs, assistance in obtaining mental health treatment and related support services through the public mental health system for as long as necessary. Assistance also includes obtaining appropriate support services, as identified by the exoneree and the assigned case manager, to assist in making the transition from incarceration into the community.

    Unfortunately, all of that will come out of the TAXPAYERS’ POCKET – although this seems to be a lovely civil suit against the DA who “cheated” – and (I’m sure) benefited monetarily from cheating!

  163. If they put the prosecutors in jail for lying and withholding evidence, we wouldn’t have any because they all do it. And “some” of the court appointed attorneys are like having another prosecutor. Judges sign search warrants on a whim, police kick in your door search your house and give you the warrant when they leave. If you ask for a warrant they will charge you with obstruction of justice. This is common practice where I live. But no one cares. Our Attorney General doesn’t or he would investigate them all. No one will do anything just like they didn’t really do anything to Ken Anderson. He purposely took 25 years of that man’s life, who had lost his wife, had his child tore from him, and made all his family and friends doubt him. And he got 10 days in prison! And, it will get worse. Just watch, IT WILL GET WORSE.

  165. Lawyers will always take care of lawyers. Part of the problem we have with government is that it is run by lawyers instead of everyday Americans who have to live under the litany of legislation that takes away more and more of our freedoms.

  166. The problem here…… is that…….. this is the rule rather than the exception….. when prosecutor feel they themselves is above the law…. after all the law mandate them to play GOD with people lives………

  167. What about the jury? Based on the article, there should not have been a conviction anyway. 10 people too stupid to get out of jury duty no doubt. Think of this case if you are called to serve!

  168. You all more than likely heard about this guy. Ken Rex McElroy (June 1, 1934 – July 10, 1981) was a resident of of Skidmore, Nodaway County, Missouri. Known as “the town Bully. He pulled all kinds of crap, rape, threating, beatings and the cops and legal system just kept letting him go. The people got tired of his crap and they did something about it.

  169. Honestly, I am surprised that the prosecutor-crook served 10 days. And, btw, he likely didn’t “serve” his time in general population…possibly the hospital ward.
    Why am I surprised that he served even a short, ten-day sentence? It’s very simple; there are two distinctly different systems of “justice”. hollywood “stars” are pampered as they thumb their surgically altered noses at the courts….you and I would be slapped into jail. Congress has its laws and we have ours. Congress creates laws for US. The good ‘ol boy network just can’t manage to regularly punish its own. This egregious case is a case in point.

  170. Mr Morton could beat the prosecutor within an inch of his life and get away clean. If found guilty he could be sentenced to “time Served”. He has already paid more than most murderers .

  173. Another lying self promoting self serving prosecutor who ruins the reputations of all. BUT NEVER FORGET, when the prosecutor leans into your face on the witness stand and says “Remember that you swore to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth”.. Your reply should be something like this while you look at the jury: “I am aware of that and I am also aware that YOU are NOT under that same oath.” Let the jury know this man could be lying to get the next promotion or win the next office.

  175. look back at history when attorneys first came out of the east coast. reading up on stories they were regarded as nothing but clowns and it was the same a going to a circus to see the antics these “educated clowns” pulled in a court room to get a client off. much of that hasn’t changed. doesn’t matter if they have proof that he did the deed or not the defense will try to get them off with insanity, given too much money as a kid, abused as a kid etc. and the prosecution withholds information that proves he is innocent to get a conviction because maybe one of their buddies did it and they are protecting him/her. when they start keeping info back they should pay in every conceivable way, both money and time in prison. a man was just let out of angola after 30 years and finally being proven that he didn’t do the crime. he is looking at a healthy chunk of change but it doesn’t make up for lost time just like it wouldn’t in this case, but seeing that attorney do the rest of his life for his zealous/callous act of keeping that info back would go a long way toward mending that fence and scare the pants off the rest of them so it won’t happen as often or they would straighten up and police their ranks.

  176. I’ve seen more corruption in the courtroom not only from back door dealings between lawyers but Judges too. remember they use to be lawyers. Coffee and donuts in the Judges chambers. The crook is set free and the innocent is sent to jail. I too have been a victim of corrupt court rooms. Happens all the time. Corrupt President , corrupt congress, corrupt judicial system. funny thing judges are immune to their decisions. Maybe all branches of our upper government are but the most critical is the Judicial branch, why cant the people over look and rid the bad out of that branch of the system?

  177. the law that allowed this scumbag to only get 10 days needs to be changed, there needs to be severe punishment for crooks that destroy public trust….life imprisonment for him and the one that let him off with only 10 days!

  178. Jail Anderson for life and let the innocent man and his family move into Anderson’s home and take over ownership.

  179. The real problem is Lawyers and the Trial lawyers Assoc. Every Judge is a lawyer so it is a club, then add in that over 51% of legislatures in every state are lawyers and you are left with a group that is truly above the law.

  181. This prosecutor should have received 10 or more years.

    As long as these white-collar crooks continue to receive a mere slap-on-the-wrist….they will continue engaging in corruption.

  184. Why is it that police and/or prosecutors would rather put the husband in jail even though it couldn’t have been him. The killer runs free probably killing others as well. I don’t understand when they get fixated on one certain person and no matter how much proof that they have can’t go and investigate anyone else. It’s abuse of power. There are times that even the family of the victim tries to alert them that they are investigating the wrong person. What do they gain besides asserting there power over citizens. I know for police there is psychological testing done but it sure does seem that they aren’t screaming them out very well. Prosecutors should have to have a psychological evaluation as well. I’m so tired of innocent people being tased,beaten and killed for crimes that they didn’t commit in the first place. Something needs to be done about things like this.

  185. I actually went to jail overnight in Marshall County Kansas for telling the truth in court, rather than going by a “script” prepared by prosecutor Laura Johnson-McNish. I really didn’t care, either. She was trying to ruin an innocent man’s life. He was found not guilty by the jury, and this prosecutor is still mad as hell.

  186. What can you expect from a system that protects its own members. Prosecutors, judges, police, there is massive corruption within the entire system. It goes all the way to the top. The top cop of the land, Eric Holder, and his boss are about as corrupt as they get. What we are seeing is trickle down corruption.

  188. Lots of people saying prosecutor should do the same time as the innocent man did. Why should an innocent man get the same time as him? Give the prosecutor much, much, more time.

  189. First, it’s Texas, not that it can’t happen anywhere. And second, are we still trusting our judicial system today?

  191. I found myself involved in county government good ole’ boys politics as an employee and was indicted for using my work vehicle for personnal use THREE year after the fact. The prosecutor turned those 2 infractions into a 14 count indictment (10 felonies) with a 14 year prison sentence. I was able to prove my innocence of all but the vehicle use which I had admitted to when first questioned of it. I was trashed and villified in the local papers and TV news which lied about facts and many of my co-workers were proven liars as well. Most local defense attorneys refused my case. I fought the charges for months until the prosecutor threatened me personnally to make false accusations about my character unless I plead to the original vehicle charges which I sure as hell did before my life was any more destroyed. I did jail time and probation. There is much more to say about what was done to me and the underhanded reasons for but why write a book here. Never ever trust a prosecutor to prosecute justice fairly and god help you if you ever have to face the law with serious charges.

  192. Prosecutors who railroad an individual should receive the same sentence the innocent man received…period.

  193. After spending over 30+ years in various areas of law enforcement both sworn and unsworn I have come to the absolute belief that profession of LAW as practiced by lawyers is a total scam on the world! It’s my opinion that 99% of the American lawyers are liars, thieves and pillagers of decency. After lawyers rape and destroy enough lives, they run for public office. There, they can rake in the big bucks!!! YES, I’M BITTER WITH 99% OF THE LAWYERS IN THE WORLD! Just Google “dishonest lawyers” and see what comes up!

  194. While I agree the 10 days is spitting in an ocean, there is soooo much more that can and should happen. Anderson the swillbag should be sued into abject poverty, beyond bankruptcy, embarrassed, humiliated, and shunned into bitter loneliness for the rest of its sordid natural life.

  195. Lock the prosecutor up for at least 10 years and tap his assetts to help the state pay for this guys 25 years in prison. Retirement included.

  196. But he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! because you load men with oppressive burdens and you yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens. Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, whereas your fathers killed them. So then you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will put to death and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the altar and the temple.’ Yes, I say this to you, it shall be required of this generation. Woe to you lawyers! because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves and those who were entering you have hindered.”

  197. If I were Morton (the innocent victim) I’d sue for millions. Once I got it, I’d secure it away for my son……., secure it away so it could never be revoked thus assuring somewhat of a better future for my child. If I didn’t get any money, so be it……….. Regardless, I ‘d then go find the pos Anderson (prosecutor) and with my bare hands choke the life out of him.

  198. Did anyone else notice that the guilty man also committed another murder? If that murder occurred after this one, then the prosecutor has that blood on his hands as well.

  199. not only that, if they would have been searching for the real killer , maybe they would have found him and preventing him from killing who ever else he killed and is serving time for. So this prosecuter knowingly with holds information that a nine year jury would have doubted the father as the killer, and allows this man so much time to kill someone else and the victim got no justice locking up the wrong man, keeping him from their son, he is probably emotionally disturbed losing both his parents like that. This is that example of a prosecuter who was looking to climb that ladder and get as many slam dunk easy convictions as they could to get promoted while killing other peoples lives in the process and once again our INjustice system gives us a finalely of yes we know you KNOWING did this criminal act on tax payer dollars and here is a slap on your prosecuting hand…………… pathetic INjustice……. I can’t see how they sleep at night when you see what their peers do and they do nothing to rectify as if to say, ” Hey I would of done the same thing to” but I gotta give you some punishment so I don’t look that bad in the public eye, but hey there is nothing they can do about it, serve your 10 days and have a nice life buddy…………………smh And they wonder why people don’t trust prosecuters and judges and police and the whole SYSTEM. Somebody needs to fix this. This is the stuff that needed to have been CHANGED. This is innocent citizens lives our system is destroying , the ones who swear to protect and serve and do what’s RIGHT and JUST.. I don’t get it. WHY??????? LOOK in the mirror America so you can fix your self. You can’t keep doing people like this. God is watching and not pleased at all. why does America get to do it, but when other countries do it, it’s time to declare war????Oh America In Justice tho hypocrite. Clean it up before its to late.

  200. THe law is always one sided.. the side of the law. that is. Prosecutors whointentionally lie to prosecute innocents should face the same sentence that the innocent suffered. These guys are worser than the criminal who commits the crime since at least the criminal did not implicate the victim in this case the husband.

  201. That MOTha**cker didnt believe in Justice, just short term numbers to make him look good–like so many heads of corporations..a sad sad sate our world is in.

  203. 10 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have got to be kidding. He robbed this man of his freedom and his poor child lost his mother and then his fother. There is no word to describe what he did. I watch Investigation Discovery which are true stores and I see it so many times that the prosecutor lies and withholds information just to get a conviction. It’s like they don’t care who they convict as long as they get a conviction so they have a good record of putting the “BAD GUYS” in jail. This is truly a dispicable crime

    and there should be a minimum of years, not days, depending on how long the guy sat in jail for. For example, if someone was in jail for 5 years and he was sentenced to 25, the prosecutor should go to jail for the remainder 20 years with no chance for parole.

  205. Every case this prosecutor ken Anderson have been involved in should be investigated by whomever cares about locking up innocent people… THIS PERSON ANDERSON SHOULD LOSE LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW AND BE INCARCERATED FOR VERY LONGTIME… Mr. that was convicted unjustly should get real lawyer to help you!!

  206. Prosecutors build their reputations by the perverse practice of convicting both innocent and guilty alike. Not buy, as Thoreau’s example of circumstantial evidence being that evidence which might conceivably be as convincing,”…as when you find a trout in the milk… .”, but by their innuendo of the milk and their speculation of the trout. Prosecutors are masters of misrepresentation by belied hypothesis. That’s not to say that defense lawyers are not just as bad, they protect both innocent and guilty, but at least they try to get the innocent off, while prosecutors are more than willing to convict the innocent, just to chalk up another win. Our founding fathers stated that it was better to let 10 guilty men go free then to put one innocent man in prison. We need to get our justice system back to providing real justice not just chalking up another win. We are seeing a justice system that has as many crooks as the crooks they’re prosecuting. By the way bring the guy back to court and give him 30 years!

  207. Justice would find Anderson spending the next 25 years in prison. I have much less respect for DA’s and prosecutors than any other portion of law enforcement. Too many are corrupt and are never punished. The license loss and 10 days are not even a slap on the wrist given the gravity of the crime. I doubt this was his only nefarious deed as a DA.

  208. They’d better back off of giving this guy tax payer funded retirement benefits. When you think about it, part of the money Mr. Mortan paid in taxes before Anderson wrongfully had him put away will go to pay for Anderson’s beach house.

  209. The system needs to stop letting prosecutors get away with this vile crap. It’s intolerable. If a lying thug prosecutor only receives a slap on the wrist from the stinking system, people victimized by a pig in this fashion have an absolute right to take their own revenge.

  210. Since the guy served 25 yrs for a murder he didnt commit, he deserves to get a free murder to pay for those years, I suggest the prosecutor.

  211. Hey Ken, I hope you’re reading this. FUCK YOU! You are what is wrong with America and the court system. OVERZEALOUS PROSECUTOR NAZI SCUMBAG. FUCK OFF. I HOPE YOU DIE OR SOMEONE KILLS YOU

  212. Note to Editor: “Jail” is for sentences one (1) year or less (among other reasons someone is jailed). But once convicted, a person can only do a 25 year sentence in “PRISON.” That is the correct way to use this terminology.

© Downtrend.com Privacy Policy | Web Development by ONCE Interactive ©
Quantcast