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Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir | Michael Morton
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"On August 13, 1986, the day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton left work to pick up his three-year-old son Eric from the babysitter. When he arrived, the sitter told him Michael's wife, Chris, had never dropped their boy off. He knew instantly something was wrong--and when he called his home line and a sheriff answered the phone, he knew it was worse than he could have imagined. Eric was safe, but Chris Morton had been beaten to death in the couple's bed. The Williamson County Sherriff's office wasted no time in pinning her murder on Michael, despite having absolutely no physical evidence that he had committed the crime--and indeed, as would be revealed nearly a quarter century later in court transcripts, despite Eric's insistence that "Daddy wasn't there" and a narration of details of the crime he could only have known through first-hand witness. The sheriff and district attorney in Michael's case never shared that transcript with the defense or, more importantly, the jury. GETTING LIFE is a sensational story of murder, injustice, and twenty-five years spent behind bars before Michael Morton was released on October 4, 2011 on the basis of exculpatory physical evidence of the real killer's guilt, which had been in the evidence locker the whole time and known to the prosecuting attorneys"--
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The cover gives you the general idea, but the book has so much more to offer. Michael Morton is convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his beloved wife, Chris. He loses everything, and everyone. He‘s eventually freed by The Innocence Project‘s work ... 25 years later.

He writes about loving Chris, losing her and his son, earning his college degree and then Master‘s in lit in prison, and eventually gaining freedom (1/2)

LitLogophile (2/2) from the perspective of someone who had a lot of time to reflect. Literature was his escape, writing his response. It appealed to me as a lover of books, and also as a criminal defense attorney. Reading Getting Life was a beautiful experience — I‘ll certainly be recommending it to colleagues and friends. (edited) 6y
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Inside, I‘d been reading so much I felt like I was doing time with Mark Twain, sharing a cell with John Steinbeck, and sitting in the dayroom with Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving. Occasionally Tom Robbins would pop in. Stephen King was always lurking around a dark corner, motioning for me to join him someplace terrifying. They had all become my friends—men I could count on to keep me distracted at night and entertained in the lonely hours when I 🔽

LitLogophile couldn‘t find anyone to talk with who knew HOW to read. 6y
LitLogophile Their books felt like gifts, as though they were written specifically for me. I wanted to write back. With my new typewriter, I could. 6y
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[Prison] is a warehouse filled with broken souls we don‘t want to look at or live with—people whose addictions, abuses, ignorance, or rage we need to be protected from.

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ravenlee 😲 6y
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#TBRtemptation post 2! Michael Morton left for work on a summer morning in 1986 after his 32nd birthday. His wife would be bludgeoned to death in their bed. He had a speedy trial and convicted of murder. He mourned his wife. He lost his son. 25 years later, after thousands of man-hours by his lawyers & NYC's Innocence Project, he was set free. Injustice was served and then repealed. This is Michael's story. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

bookishbitch One of my jobs is teaching inmates at the local prison to train shelter dogs. One of my inmates just got released for a new trial because the lead witness recanted her story, as well as other new info coming to light. He has served 27 years. I cannot even begin to imagine what it must be like to be an innocent person in prison for 1 year let alone decades. I will definitely check this one out. 7y
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