Getting Life

Michael Morton 2014

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
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Our Take

Morton's wife was murdered and the prosecutor hid evidence that would have freed him. He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The memoir is devastating in its plainness — a man describing the systematic destruction of his life by people supposed to seek truth.

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