MIchael Morton one-on-one: Life after prison — Transcript

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1. 0:00this evening we're sharing more of our
2. 0:02one-on-one interview with michael morton
3. 0:04he spent 25 years in prison for the
4. 0:06murder of his wife before DNA evidence
5. 0:09proved last fall that he was not the
6. 0:11killer Morton sat down with our shannon
7. 0:13wolfson to talk about life after prison
8. 0:15my bad days are good thanks for real
9. 0:20nice right now what have you been doing
10. 0:22I'm living back up in East Texas right
11. 0:24now
12. 0:25and it gives me a little bit of a
13. 0:27sanctuary where nobody knows me and I
14. 0:29can be normal I'm a 57-year old guy
15. 0:32who's not unlike the HT no kid gone off
16. 0:35to college I don't have anything so uh I
17. 0:40have to buy a couch I have to buy you
18. 0:43know a refrigerator I have to her
19. 0:45bed you know so it's kind of neat um
20. 0:48everything's gonna be brand new what are
21. 0:54the things that stand out to you in the
22. 0:56last six months the thing that sticks
23. 0:58out to me most these last six months is
24. 1:06the quality of the people i'm around
25. 1:08there was a man down in Houston he gave
26. 1:11me a Chevy Tahoe I heard that yeah and
27. 1:16there's a man who just got out of prison
28. 1:18got exonerated named Ricky Wyatt and
29. 1:21today he's driving that Chevy Tahoe I
30. 1:24told him if he can pass it on when he
31. 1:27can tell me about reuniting with your
32. 1:29son
33. 1:30ah my son and I we had a real quick
34. 1:37handshake it morphed into a hug and that
35. 1:38was you know I was nice but I looked
36. 1:41down and I I noticed that while they
37. 1:43weren't identical our shoes were very
38. 1:45very similar so well you know
39. 1:47coincidence and what upload hired as her
40. 1:51pants were we're both wearing newish
41. 1:53blue jeans you know and I looked it up a
42. 1:56little higher to his shirt and they
43. 1:58weren't the same but they were the same
44. 2:00style and a very similar cut you said he
45. 2:03didn't really get to grieve for Chris
46. 2:04did grieve for the 25 years he lost
47. 2:10no let me qualify that I I I didn't like
48. 2:16losing my son
49. 2:18um however my
50. 2:23my return my spiritual return the the
51. 2:27man I am today is because of that
52. 2:31and I like where I am now obviously
53. 2:36michael Morton a very spiritual man he
54. 2:38credits his faith with carrying him
55. 2:40through all of this although he says
56. 2:41adamantly that he is not what he calls a
57. 2:44penitentiary Christian instead he calls
58. 2:46himself the prodigal son who returned
59. 2:48tonight at six we are getting serious
60. 2:50with Michael about his time in prison
61. 2:52what he thinks about the justice system
62. 2:54that put him there and exactly how he's
63. 2:57trying to make sure this doesn't happen
64. 2:58to anyone else