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viuiu 'vii i yuuw viiwvhid evidence exonersBYALEXURA TEXAS TRIBUNEwww.TemTribune.orgGEORGETOWN - Parties in a disciplinary case against the prosecutor who pursued Michael Morton’s since-overturned murder conviction will have to wait another week for a decision on whether they will go to trial.The State Bar of Texas filed a grievance against former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson last year alleging that Anderson violated state ethics rules by withholding evidence and making false statements to the court during Morton’s 1987 trial. During a hearing on Friday afternoon, both sides presented their arguments and requested a summary judgment that would keep the case from going to trial.Eric Nichols, Anderson’s lawyer, argued that the State Bar’s claims, filed more than 24 years after the original trial, were invalid because of the statute of limitations.Nichols also argued that claims that Anderson concealed key pieces of evidence should be thrown out because the evidence has been held by public entities since 1989.Anderson fell under scrutiny after Morton’s lawyers discovered evidence they allege he deliberately withheld in the case. The evidence includes a phone call transcript in which Morton's mother-in-law recounted to police a conversation with her grandson who said he saw a monster — not his father — beat his mother to death. Morton was not home at the time of the beating, and neighbors rc|X)rted seeing a man in a green van parked in front of the Morton
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Polk County Enterprise
Livingston, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 01, 2013
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