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oiaie Dai aiyues mai hid evidence exoneratBYALEXURA TEXAS TRIBUNEwww.TexasTnbune.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 wejiavefrom 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 con-
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Polk County Enterprise
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Sun, Sep 01, 2013
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