In 1986 Michael Morton’s wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, a team of dedicated attorneys spends years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene. Their discoveries ultimately reveal that the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man’s loss of freedom. (Source: anunrealdream.com)
Episode Info
In 1986, Michael Morton’s wife Christine was brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael was wrongfully accused and convicted of the crime. Freed twenty-five years later from Texas prisons, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey.
TV-14 CC
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