Many cases of wrongful conviction were caused by prosecutors and/or police hiding or even falsifying evidence. They are rarely prosecuted.http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-judge-prosecuted-allegedly-hiding-evidence-prosecutor/story?id=18400767
By CHRISTINA NG (@ChristinaNg27)
Feb. 4, 2013
A Texas judge is expected to find out today whether he will be prosecuted for allegedly lying and concealing information in a case when he was a prosecutor that sent a man to prison for 25 years.
State District Judge Ken Anderson was the Williamson County district attorney in 1987 when Michael Morton was convicted of beating to death his wife, Christine Morton. Michael Morton was exonerated of the crime in 2011, after spending more than two decades in prison.
Now Anderson is accused of lying and concealing evidence that led to Morton's conviction. Morton was released from prison after a bloody bandana found 100 yards from his home in 1986 was finally DNA tested.
The bandana had Christine Morton's blood on it as well as DNA from a man identified in 2010 as Mark Alan Norwood. Norwood was later arrested and charged with the murder.
The bandana was ignored during the criminal trial.
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"If what happened to me can happen to me, it can happen to anybody," Morton said. "I didn't have a criminal record. I lived in the good part of town. I had a nice house, career, a child, a wife, a dog. I was the average Joe Blow."
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