Michael Morton: In His Own Words — Transcript

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1. 0:00don't think your life cannot change in a
2. 0:02heartbeat
3. 0:03it's Michael Morton in his own words
4. 0:06tonight the man wrongfully imprisoned 25
5. 0:09years for his wife's murder sits down
6. 0:11with our Shannon Wolfson it's the
7. 0:12interview you'll see only on KXAN my
8. 0:15Frank conversation about prison family
9. 0:18and life after the unthinkable
10. 0:21tell me about what your life was like
11. 0:23before with Christine and Eric
12. 0:27um
13. 0:28probably pretty boring
14. 0:31but then again it might resonate with
15. 0:33everybody
16. 0:34because we were almost
17. 0:37like a um some sort of demographic
18. 0:40cliche
19. 0:41and that um
20. 0:44what's different about this situation
21. 0:46here what's unusual about what makes
22. 0:48this
23. 0:50um
24. 0:50I think resonate with people I am you
25. 0:54um
26. 0:56I lived in I used to live in a nice
27. 0:57neighborhood
28. 0:59we had a brick home we lived on a corner
29. 1:02lot we had a yard and a fence and a dog
30. 1:04and a you know the the cedar deck and
31. 1:07the patio cover and all the nice things
32. 1:08and we both had careers
33. 1:11and we had our routines
34. 1:13and
35. 1:15this just doesn't happen to
36. 1:18um
37. 1:19people of Interest this just doesn't
38. 1:20happen to people with criminal records
39. 1:23that's what kind of got me
40. 1:26is the start contrast between when I
41. 1:30left for work that morning and then when
42. 1:32I came back home
43. 1:34it's don't think your life cannot change
44. 1:37in a heartbeat what is prison like for
45. 1:40someone who knows they are completely
46. 1:45innocent of the crime that they're there
47. 1:47for I don't know if it's all that
48. 1:48different for someone who's completely
49. 1:50guilty it's still harsh
50. 1:55the food still stinks the clothes don't
51. 1:58fit the haircut's lousy the company's
52. 2:00questionable
53. 2:02summer it's cold in the winter when it
54. 2:04rains you get wet but you know it's not
55. 2:06supposed to be a nice place
56. 2:10on the other hand the cliche that's used
57. 2:13is that you're supposed to go there as
58. 2:15punishment not for punishment talk to me
59. 2:19a little bit about
60. 2:22sitting in there
61. 2:24knowing that the district attorney
62. 2:28John Bradley is fighting DNA testing of
63. 2:32evidence that you feel could set you
64. 2:34free his
65. 2:36resistance didn't seem to make a lot of
66. 2:38rational sense
67. 2:40um it seems like he could actually
68. 2:42benefit from it and yet
69. 2:45I can't explain why he fought it so when
70. 2:48you hear that the DNA does not match you
71. 2:54it matches Mark Norwood or a person you
72. 2:57probably didn't even know at that time
73. 3:00but what his name was
74. 3:01that was on my birthday
75. 3:06yeah we found out about the DNA result
76. 3:08on your birthday they came and told me
77. 3:10yeah what a gift
78. 3:15saying news we have much more with
79. 3:17Michael Morton the reunion with his son
80. 3:19and the repairing of that relationship
81. 3:21his Newfound and perhaps most cherished
82. 3:24role as a grandfather and what he is
83. 3:26doing to make prosecutors more
84. 3:28accountable in Texas that is tomorrow on
85. 3:31KXAN News at 5 6 9 and 10. Leslie