Rebeca Rodriguez

Michael Morton is seen expressing relief in court on the day he was exonerated for the 1986 murder of his wife, Christine, in Texas. There were numerous accounts by neighbors that they had seen the driver of a green van park nearby and go into the woods, and there was testimony from Morton's 3-year-old son Eric, who witnessed the murder, that his father was not present and that "a monster" did it. These accounts and other key evidence was never presented at Morton's trial. The Innocence Project and the law firm of Raley & Bowick pursued additional DNA testing after the conviction, evidence that eventually linked DNA at the scene to an inmate in California who had lived in Texas at the time of the crime.