For example, Morton admitted to the police that the night before the murder, he and his wife had been in a little argument.84 It had been his birthday, and he was disappointed that she had fallen asleep before they could engage in some romantic intimacy. In fact, he had actually left her a handwritten note in their bathroom before he left for work the next morning, expressing his disappointment with that fact. In the opinion of the prosecutor, and then the jury, and then the Texas Supreme Court, this evidence was the most important evidence against Morton, because it showed his supposed motive
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