In August of 1986, Michael Morton celebrated his birthday along with his wife, Christine, and their 3 year old son Eric. The next morning, he would leave for work at 530am, only to contacted shortly after by the local police that his wife had been discovered bludgeoned to death in their own home.

Given the circumstances, and the fact that he had an argument with his wife the night before, Michael was immediately made the prime suspect of the murder. Leading to his life sentence conviction in February the following year on the basis of prosecutor Ken Anderson's passionate please for a heavy punishment.

But this story however, doesn't follow the conventional script. And what initially seemed like a straightforward case would eventually be completely upended when a plucky lawyer named John Raley would look deeper into the case files, and uncover something deeply wrong with Michael Morton's conviction.

Tune in to find out more.

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