Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Checking in with Michael Morton

Michael Morton, perhaps Texas' most famous exoneree since the Tulia defendants, has a new website promoting his book, Getting Life (Texas Monthly published a pericope here), as well as a new Twitter feed. In addition, Morton published an op-ed last month in the Dallas Morning News titled, "Prosecutors are not above the law." Check out the site; read the book; follow the feed; peruse the column.

Finally, BBC radio recently ran a piece on his case and the documentary on Morton's false conviction and exoneration that first ran on CNN, An Unreal Dream, is now available online or on DVD.

3 comments:

Thomas R. Griffith said...

Mr. Morton, since I can't get Grits to consider running for Governor, I challenge you to consider taking the reins of Texas and lead us out of this state-of-confusion and as far away as possible from the land-of-the-loopholes that the R's & D's (and the fakers & shakers - inbetweeners) created for themselves and their cronies. Maybe you can get him to accept a Post in your office. I’ll put the rest of this challenge in another location due to length and content. Thanks. C-ya at your new site. Btw, Happy Birthday man.

VOTE MORTON! I am. At least buy the book, one for yourself and one as a gift. If you can afford to buy some to donate, maybe you can get Grits to award them to random GFB readers, or winners of a GFB contest.

Anonymous said...

Now I know what to get John Bradley and Ken Anderson for Christmas...

Anonymous said...

Kindle has some copies for $10.99 and Amazon has 13 used copies for #13.99.