In 1987, Michael Morton was convicted by a Williamson County jury for murdering his wife, Christine. The limited evidence presented at the trial was all circumstantial.

Some five years ago, The Innocence Project, based in New York, went to work on Morton's behalf. Through laborious open records requests, the attorneys succeeded in getting the Williamson County District Attorney to release evidence not used in the trial held in the file of the investigator of the case, Sgt. Don Wood of the Williamson County Sheriff's office.  The evidence included a bandanna found behind the house where the murder occurred, a transcript of a conversation between Morton's three-year-old son and his grandmother, in which the boy said that his father wasn't the murderer, a phone message from a San Antonio business stating that Christine Morton's credit card was used there several days after the murder, and reports from witnesses who said that a green van and a strange man were seen in the neighborhood on the day of the murder.

The bandanna was tested for DNA and found to contain Christine Morton's hair and blood along with the DNA of a man who was not Michael Morton. Through a search of the national DNA database, the other man was identified by name and found to be a convicted felon in three states, and his crimes included assault with intent to murder, burglary and possession of drugs. And, he is presently on the loose.

In a Motion for retrial filed by Morton's lawyer in 1987, one of the prosecutors, Mike Davis, was described as telling the jury that a substantial amount of evidence in Sgt. Wood's file would have created reasonable doubt, had it been used at the trial. (Davis held his thumb and forefinger an inch apart to show the thickness of the file, according to the Motion.)

Over the years, Bradley has fought hard not to turn over the evidence, but he had to do so when the Texas Third Court of Appeals ruled against him as he fought the open records requests.

At a Georgetown hearing on Aug. 23, 2011, The Innocence Project sought to remove Bradley as prosecutor in the case.  District Judge Billy Ray Stubblefield ruled that Bradley could stay on the case. But Stubblefield ordered that Sgt. Wood's file, which had been sealed after review by the trial judge and deemed not to contain exculpatory evidence, should be unsealed. It was, but the exculpatory evidence obtained by The Innocence Project wasn't there. The only reasonable conclusion that could be inferred is that Davis, now a private-practice lawyer in Round Rock, and Ken Anderson, the first-chair prosecutor at the trial who is now a district judge in Williamson County, didn't turn over the bandanna or other evidence to either the judge or the defense.

Then, Stubblefield rec used himself as the judge in the case without giving a reason, but everybody knows he is part of the coterie of legal professionals in Williamson County which include Davis, Anderson, and Bradley. A judge from San Antonio was appointed by the Texas Supreme Court to carry on in the case.

Bradley continues to resist turning over his entire case file, despite the pledge of his office to be "an open book" in getting justice for Morton, who still sits in prison awaiting his fate.  Morton has proclaimed his innocence for the past 24 years.