Michael Morton V. State of Texas In 1986, Michael Morton was having a normal life, he had a wife, a kid, and a job. That same year his life change completely. Michael Morton was doing his daily routine, as in going to his job, coming back to his wife, and kid. When he came back from his job, he found his wife murdered in their bed. He was wrongfully convicted of the murder with enough evidence showing his innocence. After spending nearly 25 years in prison for a conviction that he didn’t commit. He was finally released in October 4, 2011 and officially discharge in December 2011. It was 1986 when Michael Morton was celebrating his birthday with her wife Christine and his 3 year old son at a restaurant. The next morning, before leaving work, Morton wrote a letter to his wife saying how he was disappointed because his wife didn’t want to be intimate with him the night before, he then finish the note with a “I Love You”. Later that day, Christine’s body was found in their bed bludgeoned to death with a supposedly weapon that was made out of wood. Because no …show more content…
The day after the body was found, police found a bloody bandana 100 yards from the Morton’s house at a constructions site. Christine’s mother told the police that Morton’s son, Eric was present during the murder. The son told his grandmother that his dad, Michael Morton was not there, He specifically said, “Daddy was not home” and described the murderer as a monster. When police questioned Morton’s neighbors, they were told that a man had repeatedly parked a green van behind Morton’s house street and that he walked off into a nearby wooded area. Police also found that Christine’s credit card had possibly been recovered in a Jewelry store in San Antonio. All this evidence could have kept Michael Morton out of prison. But according to Morton’s defense lawyers, the evidence was not turned in to them during the