Morton testifies in Norwood trial — Transcript

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1. 0:00pretty interesting first day in court in
2. 0:01san angelo mark norwood is on trial for
3. 0:04the 1986 killing of christine morton in
4. 0:06williamson county the high profile case
5. 0:08highlighted by her husband who spent 25
6. 0:11years behind bars wrongfully convicted
7. 0:13of the crime testifying today kxan's
8. 0:16chris sodegey has more on how important
9. 0:18evidence is now in play
10. 0:20for all the credit that dna and science
11. 0:22gets for exonerating michael morton and
12. 0:24turning the focus on mark norwood in
13. 0:27this case it's now a stolen handgun
14. 0:30taken out of michael morton's closet
15. 0:31that could prove to be key michael
16. 0:33morton was the first person called to
17. 0:35the stand after mark norwood pleaded not
18. 0:38guilty and while most of his testimony
19. 0:40recalled the day his wife was murdered
20. 0:42he was also spending a lot of time
21. 0:44talking about a 45 handgun that was
22. 0:46missing that he hadn't seen since 1986
23. 0:50well prosecutors presented that handgun
24. 0:52as evidence they even gave morton a
25. 0:54chance to hold it and show off some of
26. 0:56the features to the jury while he was on
27. 0:58the stand the handgun was found in 2011
28. 1:01after prosecutors said in opening
29. 1:02statements it was found in tennessee in
30. 1:05possession of a man who was friends with
31. 1:07norwood back in the 80s and that norwood
32. 1:10sold the gun to him that man by the name
33. 1:13of sunny says that he and norwood were
34. 1:15business partners in the 80s working on
35. 1:18construction including many homes in
36. 1:20michael morton's neighborhood and after
37. 1:22morton was done testifying the jury saw
38. 1:24crime scene pictures
39. 1:26from morton's home and the bedroom that
40. 1:28showed a significant amount of blood
41. 1:30spattered up onto the walls now stay
42. 1:33tuned to kxan and cakesand.com there is
43. 1:36an in-depth look at all the testimony
44. 1:38from the mark norwood trial on our web
45. 1:40page we're in san angelo chris otagi
46. 1:42kekes and news