A number of prosecutors oppose a bill that would make it a third-degree felony, with no statute of limitations, for a prosecutor intentionally to withhold exculpatory evidence from a criminal defendant or his lawyer.
But House Bill 328 author Rep. Harold Dutton Jr., D-Houston, defended his bill on April 16 before the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. He referenced the case of Michael Morton, who spent nearly 25 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted on charges he murdered his wife.
