CNN
DALLAS, Texas — Crucial DNA evidence proved Michael Morton had been sitting in jail for a quarter century, for a crime he didn’t commit. Morton was convicted in 1987 of killing his wife, Christine, even though he repeatedly denied it.
“I didn’t think I’d be convicted. I thought it was going to be a longish trial. But then it would be revealed that there can be no there there,” Morton said in the documentary “An Unreal Dream,” airing Thursday on CNN.
But he was wrong. Morton was sentenced to life and spent 25 years in prison before his attorneys and The Innocence Project, a group which works to help prove prisoners innocent through DNA evidence, found holes in his conviction.
Full story: DNA evidence frees innocent man who spent 25 years in prison