“A truly innocent man is the hardest kind of defendant to represent.” This is what Michael Morton’s team of lawyers told him at the beginning of his 25-year ordeal. Yet it is only part of why, in 1987, Michael Morton, a loving husband and doting father, was locked up for a quarter of a century after his wife was savagely beaten to death in their home in a quiet Texas neighborhood. From the time of his initial arrest as a suspect in the murder to the day of his release, Morton was treated like livestock at a slaughterhouse. ...