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jsr

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Fri Nov 8, 2013, 10:09 PM Nov 2013

Ex-prosecutor who argued to convict innocent Texas man of wife's murder agrees to 10 days in jail [View all]

Source: Associated Press

GEORGETOWN, Texas - A former Texas prosecutor charged over a wrongful murder conviction agreed to a 10-day jail sentence Friday, accepting the punishment in front of the innocent man he helped put in prison for nearly 25 years.

Ken Anderson also will be disbarred and must serve 500 hours of community service as part of a sweeping deal that was expected to end all criminal and civil cases against the embattled ex-district attorney, who was the face of the law in a tough-on-crime Texas county for 30 years.

Anderson, 61, never spoke in his return to the same courthouse where he served as a state judge for 11 years before resigning in September.

Sitting behind Anderson in the gallery was Michael Morton, who was released from prison in 2011 after DNA evidence showed he didn't beat his wife to death in 1986.




Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/prosecutor+argued+convict+innocent+wife+murder+agrees+days/9145506/story.html

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he should have been sentenced to 50 years gopiscrap Nov 2013 #1
He should have been staked to a fire ant hill for life Link Speed Nov 2013 #3
I can't stand fucking prosecutors, they all fucking lie gopiscrap Nov 2013 #4
Well, the one we worked with didn't lie about anything... cynatnite Nov 2013 #10
Take 25 years of a man's life christx30 Nov 2013 #2
Yeah, seems fair. They_Live Nov 2013 #5
The authorities have awesome power to ruin people's lives. Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #6
this dick should get the living shit kicked out of him in jail.. frylock Nov 2013 #7
They won't put him in christx30 Nov 2013 #8
bank it frylock Nov 2013 #9
A warning to hide their crap better. marble falls Nov 2013 #19
Tampering with evidence when he was the prosecutor. I am sickened The Second Stone Nov 2013 #11
Perhaps the inmates will deliver a lesson in justice. The system sure doesn't n/t radhika Nov 2013 #12
He AGREED to 10 days in jail? QuestForSense Nov 2013 #13
Under certain conditions I would accept the 10 days, but they're unconstitutional jmowreader Nov 2013 #14
The guy apologized for the 'failures in the system' Tyrs WolfDaemon Nov 2013 #15
and the real killer killed again. Cobalt Violet Nov 2013 #16
A public horsewhipping The Wizard Nov 2013 #17
And they are looking at his hand picked successor's prosecutions, too. marble falls Nov 2013 #18
Texas, it's like a whole other country. Conium Nov 2013 #20
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