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A novel based on the case, entitled Depraved Prosecution, was published in July 2012 by Kurt Johnson, a writer living in Williamson County; in the novel the fictional location of "Wiyamsun County" is the setting. [30] The Morton case is also depicted in a 2013 documentary film, An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, directed by Al Reinert. [31]
The Michael Morton Act passed in 2013 makes it a state crime to hide favorable evidence from defendants. It was named for a Williamson County man who spent almost 25 years in prison for a murder ...
For his work on the Michael Morton case, Raley was given the "Houstonian of the Year" award by the Houston Chronicle in 2013. The Chronicle cited Raley's time commitment to the case and unwillingness to give up on the case and implied that the case contributed to the passage of a law mandating DNA testing on all death-penalty cases. [13]
In 2013, Ellis authored and passed the "Michael Morton Act," legislation creating a uniform, statutory open file criminal discovery policy in Texas. [52] With the bill's passage, Texas law now explicitly states that every prosecutor has a duty to disclose documents or information that could raise questions about a defendant's guilt or lead to a ...
Westchester County prosecutors have two new suspects in a controversial 1996 double murder of an upstate millionaire that spawned five trials and an overturned conviction — but no answers.
The Travis County district attorney's office is asking a state court of appeals to reverse Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to pardon Daniel Perry last month for the 2020 killing of a Black Lives ...
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
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