Wednesday, September 28, 2011

MICHAEL MORTON: DNA EVIDENCE WHICH COULD CLEAR HIM HAS "POTENTIALLY SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS" FOR FORMER TEXAS SCIENCE BODY CHAIR D.A. JOHN BRADLEY;



"The developments could bolster efforts to exonerate Morton — who has steadfastly maintained his innocence — and help solve the mysterious killing of Debra Jan Baker, which has haunted her daughter, Caitlin Baker, nearly her entire life. She was 3 years old when her mother was bludgeoned to death in her bed.........

It could also have potentially serious ramifications for Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, the former head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. Appointed to the panel by Gov. Rick Perry, Bradley was critical of efforts to examine questions about the arson science used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham in the 1991 deaths of his three daughters. Willingham was executed in 2004. "

REPORTER BRANDI GRISSOM: THE TEXAS TRIBUNE;

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"Travis County authorities are investigating an unsolved 1988 Austin murder that they suspect is related to the 1986 murder of Christine Morton, for which her husband, Michael Morton, has been in prison for 25 years," the Texas Tribune story by reporter Brandi Grissom published earlier today under the heading, "DNA may tie Morton case to 1988 killing," begins.