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Eric Nichols, who prosecuted Warren Jeffs and 10 other polygamous sect men, was on "60 Minutes" last night.
This story, though, has nothing to do with polygamy - and this time around, Nichols is on the defense.
(Nichols is still prosecuting the remaining FLDS cases, including the Wendell Nielsen case underway now, but he's left the Texas Attorney General's Office and is in private practice otherwise).
He's representing a former Texas prosector who is under investigation for misconduct in a case that put an innocent man, Michael Morton, in prison for nearly 25 years.
Morton's attorneys won his exoneration with new DNA evidence that showed a career criminal bludgeoned his wife to death.
They say that former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson, who is now a judge, withheld evidence that could have acquitted Morton.
Watch the piece here, and read more about the case over at Texas Monthly's Daily Post blog.