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:
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This hearing is about Morrison. It seems they would have questioned him. He was the one filing charges of tillers Misdemeanors. Tiller spent a lot of money buying his election.
It certainly is hard to weed our way through the convolusions of human nature to resolve justice. But, I guess that shouldn’t really surpise us – it’s not like Morrison and Carter committed original sin. Is it likely now that other defendants/respondants will come crawling out of the woodwork asking for new trials and hearings claiming that Morrison “… was acting out of character” when he or his staff filed on them?
Anytime the prosecutor and his staff appear to have tainted the process due to their own behavior or beliefs, it should be questioned.
But with that said, if the charges against Tiller is that he did not have a separate second physician sign off on the late term abortions, which is what the law requires, then that is what the actual trial should be about – not the behavior of the prosecutor and his staff. And those charges should be able to be proven by the actual medical records.