Ken Anderson, judge of the 277th District Court in Williamson County, on April 19 turned himself in and then bonded out of the Williamson County jail. It happened after a court issued two arrest warrants based on his alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence in a 26-year-old murder case.
The development ends a court of inquiry, in which 213th District Judge Louis Sturns of Fort Worth found probable cause to believe that, while prosecuting the Michael Morton case in 1987, Anderson committed the offenses of criminal contempt of court, misdemeanor tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and felony tampering with government records. Sturns issued an order to show cause on the contempt finding and arrest warrants for the other offenses.
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