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“You do have my sympathies,” Harle said. “You have my apologies. . . . We do not have a perfect system of justice, but we have the best system of justice in the world.”

Said Texas District Judge Sid Harle after Mr. Morton was found innocent of murdering his wife & released from jail after serving 24 yrs. Not perfect, but absolutely the best, right Your Honor?

The motive?

Prosecutors had claimed Morton killed his wife in a fit of rage after she wouldn’t have sex with him following a dinner celebrating his 32nd birthday.

And as long as you're a honky who allegedly killed his wife in a fit of rage, say you're sorry & you 'll get parole:

Morton’s defense attorney, John Raley, said his client was told a few years ago that if he showed remorse for the crime, he likely would have been paroled.

Also looking bad: Texas Gov. Perry. Surprising, huh?

The case in Williamson County, north of Austin, will likely raise more questions about the district attorney, John Bradley, a Gov. Rick Perry appointee whose tenure on the Texas Forensic Science Commission was controversial. Bradley criticized the commission’s investigation of the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 after being convicted of arson in the deaths of his three children. Some experts have since concluded the forensic science in the case was faulty.

Bradley did not try the original case against Morton. But the Innocence Project has accused him of suppressing evidence that would have helped clear Morton sooner. That evidence — including a transcript of a police interview indicating that Morton’s son said the attacker was not his father and that his wife’s credit card and personal checks were used after she was killed — was ultimately obtained through a Texas Public Information Act request.