Michael Morton is a free man - 6 pm News — Transcript

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1. 0:00he will release such a turn michael
2. 0:04Morton now a free man after spending 25
3. 0:07years in a Texas prison for a murder he
4. 0:09did not commit he walked out at the
5. 0:11Williamson County Courthouse surrounded
6. 0:13by his family this afternoon our shannon
7. 0:15wolfson was at the courtroom today she's
8. 0:17live with reaction from georgetown and
9. 0:19michael morton just moments after he was
10. 0:21set free Kenan Robert 25 years ago
11. 0:24michael Morton walked out of a
12. 0:26Williamson County Courthouse and he told
13. 0:28reporters as adamantly as he could I did
14. 0:30not do this well it took 25 years but
15. 0:33new DNA evidence proved he was telling
16. 0:36the truth you know I've got to admit
17. 0:37even as a reporter it is hard to
18. 0:39describe what it's like watching someone
19. 0:41gain their freedom who's been wrongfully
20. 0:43imprisoned for 25 years so we thought we
21. 0:47would just show you the best we could
22. 0:48some of the sights and sounds from the
23. 0:50courtroom today
24. 0:56my sympathy you have my apologies we
25. 1:01don't have a perfect system of justice
26. 1:03but we have the best system that is
27. 1:06available
28. 1:08and you were released subjective term I
29. 1:22think
30. 1:26okay take your time
31. 1:32I thank god this wasn't a capital case
32. 1:35that i only had life because it gave the
33. 1:38saints here at the instance project time
34. 1:42to do this color seemed real bright to
35. 1:45me now the women are real good looking
36. 1:49this is one of the happiest days of my
37. 1:52life I thank God for it we're so
38. 1:54thankful the truth finally came out yes
39. 1:57and we're happy actually happy we're
40. 2:00always hopeful always hopeful never gave
41. 2:03up hope
42. 2:05I prayed for it and I had faith that it
43. 2:09would arrive yes michael Morton telling
44. 2:15us he never gave up hope that this day
45. 2:17would come he is clearly a faithful man
46. 2:19from a faithful family and they have a
47. 2:22lot of catching up to do we're live in
48. 2:24Georgetown shannon wolfson KXAN news