People have been asking me this week about what Linda Carter’s affair with former Attorney General Paul Morrison has to do with a criminal case against Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller. Tiller’s lawyer Dan Monnat tried to show that Morrison so wanted to please Carter that he’d do anything for her. Since she opposed the late-term abortions Tiller has performed, Carter testified she wanted to see Tiller charged.
Such actions would have been uncharacteristic for Morrison. To present circumstantial evidence that Morrison wasn’t acting like himself back in 2007, Monnat questioned Carter about other behavior that was out of character for the prosecutor, such as getting a tattoo, as she explains in this video: