Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 29 2012

Michael Morton came home from work on a summer day in 1986 to find the Sheriff at his house, and the lifeless body of his wife in their bedroom. A few days later, he was arrested for the murder.

There was no weapon or other direct evidence connecting Morton to the crime. Nonetheless, an ambitious prosecutor named Ken Anderson convinced a jury that Morton had brutally murdered his wife because she had withheld conjugal relations from him. Anderson?s office also refused to carry out its legal responsibility to provide full discovery to Morton?s defense counsel, withholding a key police report in which the only witness, the couple?s three-year-old son, testified that a large man with a distinctive mustache had killed his mother.

Morton was sent to prison. Anderson was named prosecutor of the year and then appointed as a district judge in the same court that had convicted Morton. Earlier this year, Morton was exonerated through DNA evidence pried from a reluctant DA?s office by the Innocence Project ? and another suspect, a convicted felon, was arrested for the murder.

Under the Bible?s standard of equity, Ken Anderson should serve the balance of the life sentence he knowingly inflicted on an innocent man.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.