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TX: Defendant Alleges State Did Not Disclose Deal with Informants in Murder Case

TX: Defendant Alleges State Did Not Disclose Deal with Informants in Murder Case

by OpenFile | Sep 16, 2014 | Texas, The Open File Blog

Grits for Breakfast recently posted on a Dallas murder case with a strong prosecutorial misconduct claim that prosecutors knowingly presented false evidence. State informants testified at trial that they received nothing in exchange for their testimony that they heard...
TX: Anthony Graves Pursues Bar Complaint Against Prosecutor Who Wrongly Put Him In Jail

TX: Anthony Graves Pursues Bar Complaint Against Prosecutor Who Wrongly Put Him In Jail

by OpenFile | Jan 23, 2014 | Texas, The Open File Blog

Texas exoneree Anthony Graves announced Monday that he has filed a bar complaint against the prosecutor who sent him to death row for nearly 20 years. At a news conference on the grounds of Texas Southern University, Graves said he is asking the State Bar of Texas to...
Texas Monthly: Why Doesn’t the DA in Anthony Graves’ Case Face the Same Punishment as Ken Anderson?

Texas Monthly: Why Doesn’t the DA in Anthony Graves’ Case Face the Same Punishment as Ken Anderson?

by OpenFile | Dec 26, 2013 | Texas, The Open File Blog

Since the arrest and trial of former District Attorney Ken Anderson of Williamson County, Texas, responsible for suppressing exculpatory evidence in Michael Morton’s murder case (which resulted in his wrongful imprisonment for 25 years), commentators are...
TX: Morton’s Prosecutor is First to be Imprisoned for Prosecutorial Misconduct; Sets a Powerful Precedent

TX: Morton’s Prosecutor is First to be Imprisoned for Prosecutorial Misconduct; Sets a Powerful Precedent

by OpenFile | Nov 10, 2013 | Texas, The Open File Blog

Former prosecutor-turned-judge Ken Anderson has received a jail sentence of 10 days and been disbarred from the Texas legal profession for withholding exculpatory evidence in the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton. Anderson took a plea after a district court judge...
Morton & Scheck Op-Ed: “Prosecutors in Willingham Case Withheld Evidence; Clemency Process Needs Reform”

Morton & Scheck Op-Ed: “Prosecutors in Willingham Case Withheld Evidence; Clemency Process Needs Reform”

by OpenFile | Oct 17, 2013 | Texas, The Open File Blog

Texas exoneree Michael Morton and Barry Scheck, Director of the Innocence Project, have co-authored an opinion editorial in the Houston Chronicle which suggests that prosecutors in the now infamous Cameron Todd Willingham case withheld the recantation of a key witness...
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