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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
