Voices
MARK
GODSEY
HUFFINGTON
11.24-12.01.13
AP PHOTO/STATESMAN.COM, RICARDO BRAZZIELL, POOL
The Powerful Go
Punished in Texas
E
ARLIER THIS MONTH in Texas, former prosecutor and
judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing
to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man,
Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife.
When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed evidence that may have cleared Morton, including
statements from the crime’s only eyewitness that Morton wasn’t the culprit. Anderson sat on this evidence,
and then watched Morton get convicted. While Morton
remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson’s career flourished, and he eventually became a judge.
Ken Anderson
chokes back
tears after
recalling a
prosecution
that
wrongfully
sentenced a
Texas man
to 25 years.
The man was
exonerated
in 2011
following new
DNA tests.