What’s the old saying? ‘The wheels of God’s justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.’ Something like that.
someone needs to go back to Youtube and certain websites and make some animated gifs
Tell that to Michael Morton.
Just google the name and you’ll learn pretty quick how an evil prosecutor in Williamson County, TX deliberately withheld two key pieces of exculpatory evidence in the case.
Morton was convicted for killing his wife on August 13, 1986, and served 25 years in prison all the while maintaining his innocence.
In 2002 the Innocense Project took on his case.
They uncovered the evidence and fought for 7 years just to get DNA testing of a blue bandana found only 100 feet from the crime scene.
The testing showed the blood of his wife, and the blood of a male who was NOT Michael Morton.
It turns out the DNA was already in CODIS and the real killer was discovered.
But the DA didn’t give a damn, and the IP actually investigated the real killer’s crime spree and time lime.
In doing so they solved a cold case from 1988 where a woman was bludgeoned in her home in basically the identical way Mrs. Morton was killed.
Also their three year old son saw the murder, and told his grandmother about it.
He said the monster with the red hands did it, and daddy wasn’t at home.
This was withheld from the defense.
So Michael Morton lost his wife, 25 years with his son, and to top it off he served a horrific 25 years in prison wrongly convicted.
He was formally exonerated and released in 2011.
The Texas legislature passed the Michael Morton Act in 2013 to try and prevent this kind of thing from happening.
As a former Texas prosecutor and present defense attorney I can say our system is not nearly as good as it could be, and certainly not as good as people outside of it think it is.
Morton actually thought that because he was innocent that by the end of the trial Justice would be done.
Just keep that in mind if you ever end up on a jury.
There are serious consequences when politically driven prosecutors with no conscience take a high profile case.
There is an excellent documentary on Netflix called “An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story”. Sorry for the preaching. It’s just an issue I’m all too familiar with.
Oh yea, OJ is guilty based on everything I saw.
What’s the old saying? ‘The wheels of God’s justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.’ Something like that.
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The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. ....Lord Calvin