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Michael Morton, whose wrongful conviction I chronicled in my 2012 story "The Innocent Man," criticizes the new Showtime doc #Outcry for elevating several prosecutors--including one who sought to keep him in prison--while maligning an attorney who helped secure his freedom. 👇 1/x
The documentary, which examines another troubled Texas case, "portrays D.A. Shawn Dick and his First Assistant, Lindsey Roberts, as 'truth seekers' who were supposedly inspired by my exoneration to bring real change to Williamson County," writes Morton." 2/x
Morton: "Yet the film never mentions that they played key roles in seeking to obstruct an inquiry into the prosecutorial misconduct that caused my wrongful conviction and (in Mr. Roberts’s case) fought to keep me in prison even after DNA identified my wife’s real killer." 3/x
