taylor chased by white. and taylor scores and the foul! [cheers and applause] the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of captionmax which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies and their respective agents and divisions, are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for errors in transcription. closed captioning provided by cbs sports division >> steve: withey's block leads to this.: withey's block leads tyshawn taylor, so good in transition. draws the foul. and now he can make it a 3-possession game with this free throw. but phenomenal defense at the other end by withey. staying high, jumping, but maintaining his position. >> marv: taylor one of three at the line. he has 21 points. white on the foul, his second. and a 3-point play for tyshawn taylor! kansas has opened up a 7-point lead. [crowd yelling] >> marv: just under 2 minutes to go, second half.

>> steve: kansas stays in the triangle-and-2, marv, chasing barnes and white. [crowd yelling] >> marv: barnes doubled. here is white -- rejected by withey! and releford ahead of the field. releford [cheers and applause] >> marv: and it's a 76-67 lead. an 8-0 run for the jayhawks! [cheers and applause] >> marv: white is not the player that roy williams wants to see shoot the ball. >> steve: but no advantage inside right now because withey and robinson are on the court. and that's where bill self's management of this game has come into play. marv, he has his big guys on the floor in the final few minutes with everything on the line. and withey's defense has led to

the transition for kansas. trying to go to the final four. ♪ ♪ ♪ prepare for anything. ♪ vitaminwater, you're up. >> marv: for those of you expecting to see "60 minutes" you are watching the n.c.a.a. men's college basketball tournament game between kansas and north carolina. marv albert, steve kerr and craig sager. kansas with the 76-67 lead. "60 minutes" will be seen in its

entirety following this game, except on the west coast. so bill self and kansas, who did it to north carolina in 2008 -- and white, wide open, takes the 3. rebounded by releford. and the foul is called on north carolina. and there's kendall marshall, sitting out for a second straight game with the fractured right wrist. and that has obviously been a devastating blow to the tar heels. >> steve: major. stilman white has fantastic but he is not kendall marshall. and kansas has been able to run the triangle-and-2 the last five minutes. very little 3-point shooting for carolina. two of 14 on the night. >> marv: and the next foul puts the tar heels over the limit. time is running out on north carolina, the final minute. the foul given by white and that

will put elijah johnson on the line for a 1 and 1. i started to say that kansas defeated north carolina in the only other meeting between bill self and roy williams, since williams left kansas for north carolina. that was in the 2008 final four semifinal in san antonio. and kansas went on to win by 18 on the way to the national championship. kansas controls again and bullock has to commit the foul to send releford to the line. >> steve: and the game you were talking about was an epic battle, kansas up, i think, 24 in the first half and carolina cut it to 4 late and almost completed the comeback before kansas pulled away from the last few minutes. and then what happened after that was remarkable. roy williams, the carolina coach, showed up on monday night in the kansas cheering section,

wearing a jayhawk pin on his lapel, angering the tar heels fans. >> marv: not appreciated. and it's bullock. down to 35 seconds to go. and a foul will put elijah johnson at the line. you look at what kansas has done and what bill self has accomplished with a rebuilt team with the departure of the twin front court players, marcus morris and markieff and brady morningstar and josh selby and lead by robinson, and they knew he had the skills and a much improved tyshawn taylor, much improved elijah johnson -- who hits the first free throw -- plus the big 12's defense player of the year, another young man

who has come a long way, jeff withey. kansas has come back so strong and here they are headed to the final four. >> steve: i think one of the great coaching jobs, bill self getting his team to play loose and really overcome the low expectations. as withey is fouled. everybody said kansas will be down this season and i think self used that look at the smile on his face. he used that with this team to kind of allow them to grow as the season went along and i think coming into the game he gave them such a great mind-set emotionally, talking about, "we are gonna come out of this. we haven't played well yet and we were in the elite eight" giving them the underdog mentality. they have responded by playing loosely and extremely well. >> marv: and bill self saying, "our guys take pride in not being picture-perfect."

and that's been the story in the tournament. they beat detroit and then purdue sunday night as they came from 11 down. friday night did not have an easy time as north carolina state came back into it. and coming to the final seconds. [cheers and applause] >> marv: the jayhawks hearing it from their crowd. [buzzer] >> marv: kansas headed to the final four to face the buckeyes of ohio state. they end the game with 12 unanswered. the last three minutes and 55 seconds. closed captioning provided by cbs sports division captioned by captionmax www.captionmax.com >> marv: and many have felt all season long, kansas has

overachieved. >> steve: they have and they have because of that guy right there, thomas robinson, withey, the great defense that we've seen from this club. tyshawn taylor has had an outstanding senior season. and bill self, one of the best coaches in the country. maybe this is his finest season yet as a collegiate coach. >> marv: in his ninth year as coach as kansas. he took over when roy williams left. to go to the tar heels. self has won a national championship. he has won eight straight regular season big 12 titles. >> steve: he was just 1-5 in elite eight games coming into tonight, too. >> marv: he has had tough losses along the way as you see the brackets. and kansas to the final four for

the 14th time in school history. and you saw bill self and roy williams shake hands as we wrap it up from st. louis, kansas advancing to the final four. for steve kerr, craig sager and the rest of our crew, i am marv albert saying good night from st. louis. we'll send you to our new york studio after these messages. [ bell dings ] we're pressed for time so here it is. i'm looking for the one. kids, house, the whole domestic thing, you know? then why does your relationship status say, "never getting married"? hmm... that was the old me. it says you updated it 15 minutes ago. yes...yup... yeah that was before i met you. favorite pickup line: "nothing mattered before i met you."

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>> greg g.: welcome back to our studios here in new york as we continue along the "road to the final four." i am greg gumbel. and the final score, the midwest regional championship from st. louis, the north carolina tar heels fall to kansas. the jayhawks move on by a score of 80-67 and this is what is going to happen on saturday. the final four show from new orleans, followed by louisville against kentucky in one semifinal and then beginning at about 8:49, game two will be ohio state against kansas. and then on monday night, 9:00

p.m., the play prelude to the championship. and i am joined by greg, kenny, charles and frank. and good news, a team from kansas gunot you. but i know you are big on the coaching job of bill self. >> frank: the job he has done, five guys with a short bench, and to play and win today, it's just a credit to who he is. >> greg g.: and tyshawn taylor, 10 of 19 today. >> charles: i had him as a sleeper and he was asleep the whole tournament but he was fantastic today, the energizer bunny. and he made a couple of decisions, coach almost blew a gask

gasket. >> kenny: and anytime he wanted a shot, he got the opportunity. >> greg a.: and the defense that kansas played in the second half, carolina made the jump shots in the first half and then only the jump shots in the second half. you have to give kansas' defense to make the line play above the free throw line line. >> greg g.: and kansas the winner. coming up on cbs, another edition of "60 minutes" and an interview with tennis star, djokovic, only on cbs. for our entire broadcast team, including a really hard working new york crew, i am greg gumbel. thanks for watching. have a good evening. we'll see you from new orleans. ♪ ♪

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from a near-death experience. and in many ways, the most dramatic recovery has been chrysler's. three years ago, the company was headed for the junkyard crusher, leaking cash and about to be scrapped, unloved and unwanted. but last year, chrysler turned a $183 million profit, and would have made a lot more if it hadn't decided to repay its $6 billion federal bailout six years ahead of schedule. much of the credit goes to u.s. taxpayers, and to chrysler workers who accepted wage and benefit cuts. but none of it would have happened without the efforts of a 59-year-old italian-born and canadian-raised auto executive named sergio marchionne, who engineered a last-minute partnership with fiat, and an american-style success story. with his gray stubble, longish hair, relaxed demeanor, and trademark black sweaters, sergio marchionne looks more like a film director than an auto executive, but he is now the industry's biggest star.

>> sergio marchionne... ( cheers and applause ) >> kroft: the c.e.o. of fiat had already rescued that company from financial ruin, and in chrysler, marchionne saw at least one similarity-- both companies had been through hell. >> sergio marchionne: i remember, when i came here in 2009, there's not a thing worse for a leader than to see fear in people's faces. it's been a long, rocky road, but the fear has gone. >> kroft: what were they afraid of? >> marchionne: of not being here, all right? it's that simple-- this was really a question of existence. there's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control. >> kroft: and that was exactly the situation at chrysler in early 2009 when marchionne began negotiating with the federal government over a controlled bankruptcy of chrysler that would allow fiat to take over the failing auto company. it was the last hope for chrysler and its 54,000 employees.

>> marchionne: there wasn't a c.e.o. in the world, from the car side, that would have touched this with a ten-foot pole. >> kroft: gave you a little leverage? >> marchionne: it gave me some leverage and a whole pile of downside risk. you can't... you know, for you to be the only guy at the bar, there's got to be a reason, right? >> kroft: did you think it was a long shot? >> marchionne: all these things are long shots, all. if it was that easy, then everybody would do it. >> steve rattner: if sergio had not appeared, i think it's very likely chrysler would have been allowed to liquidate. >> kroft: steve rattner, who was head of the presidential task force on the auto industry, sat across from marchionne at the bargaining table during the height of the economic crisis. rattner believes that chrysler's demise could have cost 300,000 american jobs up and down the industrial supply chain. was he a tough negotiator? >> rattner: brutally tough, yeah. he... but that's part of why he's successful.

>> kroft: in the end, marchionne and fiat got a 20% stake in the brand-new, slimmed-down, debt- free chrysler, plus a $6 billion high-interest loan from the u.s. treasury, just for taking the auto company off the government's hands and running it. he used the $6 billion to modernize chrysler plants with state-of-the-art equipment to improve quality, upgraded 16 existing models in just 18 months, and began integrating chrysler and fiat's operations. obviously, you saw something in chrysler that you thought would fit well with fiat? >> marchionne: yeah, from a product standpoint, they were the other half of the coin. when you put the two together, we were going to come out with a product portfolio that was absolutely complete. >> kroft: chrysler's best assets were its jeeps, minivans, and light trucks. fiat's expertise was in small car technology and fuel efficient engines, the very thing that chrysler lacked. and next month, the first

product of that collaboration will begin rolling off the assembly line in belvidere, illinois. >> marchionne: this car didn't even exist on paper in june of 2009. >> kroft: it's the dodge dart, the first new compact sedan that chrysler has produced in more than a decade. it's a slightly longer and wider version of the alfa romeo guiletta, re-engineered and built in the u.s.a.-- base price, just under $16,000, with 40 miles to the gallon. how important is this car to chrysler? >> marchionne: if you are a serious car maker and you can't make it into a segment, it... you're doomed. >> kroft: it's got a little italian flair? >> marchionne: yeah. just enough to make it interesting, and it avoids all the pitfalls of being italian, yeah? ( laughs ) >> kroft: mechanically, it's good? >> marchionne: mechanically, it's outstanding. >> kroft: under marchionne the quality of both fiat and chrysler products both have improved dramatically, according to "consumer reports." now, marchionne needs to convince the public. >> marchionne: we got it.

we fixed it. this car has nothing to apologize to.... for an... i mean, for anything. >> kroft: the darts produced at the belvidere plant are not just for u.s. consumption; marchionne plans to begin exporting them to more than 60 countries. when he took over chrysler in 2009, this plant had 200 workers; by the end of the summer, there will be 4,500. >> kroft: what do you think of american workers? >> marchionne: i think the world of american workers. what happened here at chrysler would have been impossible without the commitment that they've shown, absolutely impossible. when i was looking at this deal back in 2009, i snuck into jefferson, our plant that now makes the grand cherokee. and i thought, if i had any reservations about doing this deal, it was after i saw the state of that plant. and the people that fixed that plant are the people in the plant. >> kroft: like most of detroit's auto makers, chrysler was

saddled with a stifling bureaucracy, which marchionne quickly culled. to change the management structure, he combed through the company and found 26 young leaders who would report directly to him. were they on the management fast track? >> marchionne: no. some of these people were buried inside an incredibly hierarchical organization that, you know, all pointed to the top. this place was run by a chairman's office. that's the tower, right? >> kroft: uh-huh. >> marchionne: and the chairman's office is the top floor. it's empty now. we use it as a tourist trap. we bring people up there. >> kroft: why did you leave? >> marchionne: because nothing happens there. i'm on the floor here with all the engineers. >> kroft: with the engineers? >> marchionne: yeah. i can build a car with all the guys on this floor. that's all i care about. >> kroft: how do they feel about you having... >> marchionne: they love it. >> kroft: ...on the floor? >> marchionne: ( laughs ) the official view is that they love

it. >> kroft: whether they like it or not, everyone on the floor seems to have gotten used to his presence. sorry to barge in on you like this. this does he walk in all the time? >> occasionally, yeah. >> kroft: 42-year-old ralph gilles is in charge of product design at chrysler and one of the rare holdovers from the old regime. the chrysler 300 and the dodge dart are his babies. he says the company has always had good talent, but a lack of resources and execution produced cheap interiors and poor fit and finish. >> ralph gilles: everyone knew what was wrong with the cars. you asked any employee in the company, they could list ten things that they would do better. and when you're given the chance to do those kind of things better, you end up with a product that exceeds the sum of its parts. >> kroft: the company has also made strides in reshaping its image. chrysler's dramatic "imported from detroit campaign" with eminem was hugely successful. and this year's two-minute, $8

million super bowl ad with clint eastwood, extolling the resiliency of america and its automobile industry, caused a major stir and briefly became part of the presidential campaign. republicans said that this was... was a campaign commercial for president obama, a payback. did you anticipate that criticism? >> marchionne: just to rectify the record here, i paid back the loans and 19.7% interest. i don't think that i committed to do a commercial on top of that. i thought that the republicans' reactions to this was unnecessary and out of place. >> kroft: that's very restrained from you for you. >> marchionne: it is. i'm on camera. you put me here. you turn these things off, i'll give you my own assessment. >> kroft: marchionne splits his time between the fiat headquarters in turin, italy, and chrysler headquarters in auburn hills, michigan, but he

is fully engaged on both continents at all times. when you're here, do you get calls... do you have to deal with fiat? >> marchionne: yeah. that's why i get up at 3:30 in the morning, so i can deal with the european side and be fine here by the time i get in. i mean, the other things that helps is the... our time zones. >> kroft: when do you go to sleep? >> marchionne: 10:00. i'm not really a late-night guy. i used to be when i was younger. >> kroft: besides being c.e.o. of the chrysler group and fiat automotive, which has nearly 200,000 employees at 166 plants worldwide, marchionne is also chairman of the fiat industrial group, which makes heavy equipment, and sgs, the world's largest standards and instruments company, based in geneva. he manages all this with five different cell phones he totes around in his knapsack. you've got a lot of jobs. >> marchionne: hmm. i have some, yes. >> kroft: do you remember them all? >> marchionne: yeah.

but i... yeah, i don't get confused, since i do them all, yes? >> rattner: you and i have lived among workaholics in our day. i have never seen anything like sergio. when it was a holiday in italy, he'd come to america to work. when it's a holiday in america, he goes to italy to work. saturdays and sundays were just workdays to him and for his whole team, and anybody who signed up with sergio signed up for the program. >> kroft: marchionne does have passions besides work. he loves opera and jazz and very fast cars. in turin, he showed us the high end of the fiat automotive line which includes maserati and ferrari. these are great looking cars. is anything here for less than half a million dollars? >> marchionne: all of them >> kroft: sergio owns a couple of these, but he has no opportunity to drive them. as the head of italy's largest industrial empire, his life is much different here. he's required by the government to travel in bulletproof cars with police escorts, and is always surrounded by state security. sergio seemed more than happy to take us to the old test track that still sits atop an old

factory for a short spin in this limited edition alfa romeo, a legendary brand that he will reintroduce to the u.s. market in 2014. but even here, he was unable to escape his security detail. >> marchionne: it has a severe impact on your private life, because you're always with them when you're there. it's part of life. it's part of what i do. >> kroft: do you have a private life? >> marchionne: sure, i do. and it's private. it's private. >> kroft: what he likes to discuss is business, which is worse right now in europe than in the u.s. what promises to be a serious recession is beginning to affect the economy there, and fiat and other european car makers are struggling. but it should not affect the future of chrysler. do you think they're out of the woods?

>> rattner: i think the question of whether chrysler will survive or not is largely behind us. i think the question at this point is how big a market share can they have? how good can their products be? >> kroft: there are plenty of new products in the pipeline. a brand new viper will debut next month, and a high-end maserati s.u.v. built in detroit will debut next year, along with a whole range of new models. with sales up 40% early this year, the company is projecting its best first quarter in four years. but marchionne, who is right now obsessed with quality, is taking nothing for granted. what's the biggest challenge facing chrysler right now? >> marchionne: that we're going to slip on execution, we're going to get something wrong, big. >> kroft: like what? >> marchionne: we're going to screw up on a car. it won't sell. it's possible. >> kroft: can you afford that? >> marchionne: one car, yes. ( laughs ) now, i can afford a car.

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>> logan: it's not every day that a convicted murderer clears

his name and then returns to court to argue that his prosecutor should be prosecuted. but that's what happened recently in a high-profile case in texas that raises broader questions about the power prosecutors have and what happens when they're accused of misusing it. at the center of this story is a man named michael morton. he was once an ordinary citizen with a wife, a child, a job, and no criminal record whatsoever. but then, he was sent to prison for life. in 1987, in a very public trial, michael morton was convicted of brutally murdering his wife. as he was led away to prison, he insisted he was innocent. >> michael morton: i did not do this. >> i'm sorry, what? >> morton: i did not do this. >> logan: hardly anyone believed him, until last year... ( applause ) ...when he was exonerated by d.n.a. testing. by then, he had spent nearly 25 years of his life behind bars. what was it like for you to walk from the court a free man?

>> morton: it was so alien, at first. it wasn't quite real. we stepped out of the courtroom and it was a beautiful sunny day. the sun felt so good on my face, on my skin. i can just feel like i was just drinking in the sunshine. >> logan: had you felt it in 25 years? >> morton: i'd felt the sun, but i hadn't felt free sun. ( laughs ) >> logan: and free sun feels different? >> morton: it does. it sounds stupid, but it feels different. >> logan: his nightmare began on a summer afternoon in 1986 when he came home from work in austin, texas, and found the sheriff at his house. a neighbor had discovered his three-year-old son eric alone in the yard, and his wife christine bludgeoned to death in the bedroom. >> morton: i didn't really have the opportunity to grieve for her, because it... everything changed so rapidly away from her to me.

>> logan: so, were you a suspect from the very first moment? >> morton: yeah, if... all the questions were adversarial, accusatory. it became clear to me that the sheriff showed up, looked around, and "okay, husband did this." >> logan: and not long after that, you were arrested. >> morton: about six weeks, yeah. they literally pulled my son out of my arms, because he was screaming for me. and, you know, the... the little hand is out. and they're be... he's being pulled away. and that was one of the worst parts. >> logan: williamson county district attorney ken anderson prosecuted michael morton. he told the jury morton killed his wife because she wouldn't have sex with him. there was no murder weapon or direct evidence linking morton to the crime, but anderson argued persuasively that morton was violent and unremorseful. >> ken anderson: it got sickening after a while to watch him cry at the wrong times, and

he seemed only to cry for himself. >> logan: morton and his original trial lawyers always suspected there was evidence that would have helped establish his innocence that anderson wasn't telling them about. but they were never given full access to the police reports in the prosecutor's file. it wasn't until recently, after years of legal wrangling, that lawyers barry scheck and nina morrison of the innocence project, and john raley, a private attorney in houston, finally got a look at anderson's file from the original trial. >> john raley: it was one of those moments where you almost... you almost faint, to hold in my hand a copy of a document that the district attorney at the time had and didn't tell anybody about it on the defense side... >> logan: that document would've proved what? >> raley: would've proved that michael morton is innocent. >> logan: he's talking about this police report, in which christine's mother told investigators that her three- year-old grandson eric had

witnessed the murder and described to her in detail how he saw a "monster" with a "big moustache" kill his mother. "he hit mommy," eric says in the report. "was daddy there?" his grandmother asks. "no, mommy and eric was there." there was also this report in which a neighbor described seeing a suspicious man "park a green van on the street" and "walk into the wooded area" behind the morton home. barry scheck says this is precisely the kind of information a prosecutor is legally and ethically obligated to disclose. >> barry scheck: sitting in the prosecutor's file and sitting in the sheriff's file, there was a set of documents which, if they had been revealed and the defense had seen them, michael morton would have been acquitted. >> logan: ken anderson went on to be named prosecutor of the year in texas, and since 2002, he's been a district judge in the same court where michael morton was convicted.

all those years, morton languished in prison. >> morton: my first cell, i could stretch out my arms and before my elbows locked, i was touching both walls. and you got two grown men in there. the food's abysmal. you're never alone. the system controls every part of your life. >> logan: it's soul-destroying? >> morton: yeah. it... it eats at you kind of like a rust. >> logan: the one thing he told us that sustained him was the thought of his son. he was allowed to see eric for two hours once every six months. when he was about 12 or 13 years old, he wrote to you and said he didn't want to come and see you anymore. was your heart broken? >> morton: can't really limit to your heart. >> logan: everything? >> morton: it's just... when your child says they no longer want to come see you... >> logan: and then, when he turned 18, what did he do?

>> morton: i got notice in the mail that he was going to be adopted by my sister-in-law and her husband, both good folks. and he was going to change his name. >> logan: and what did that do to you? >> morton: that was when i hit rock bottom. that was the end of it. that's when i had nothing left. >> logan: what finally gave him back his freedom last fall was d.n.a. evidence. after fighting the district attorney's office for five years, the innocence project won permission to do d.n.a. testing on a bloody bandana found near the crime scene. on it, the lab found christine morton's blood and the d.n.a. of a known felon, mark alan norwood, who's since been arrested for her murder. his dna has also been matched to the crime scene of another young woman who was murdered after christine. it's not just that an innocent man was put in jail. it was that a killer went free.

>> raley: yes. i think eric described him well as a monster. they... they never looked for the monster. >> logan: so just to be clear, from both of you, you believe that ken anderson, the prosecutor in michael's case, willfully, deliberately withheld evidence. >> scheck: we believe that there's probable cause to believe that he violated a court order, withheld exculpatory evidence, and violated other laws of the state of texas. >> logan: so the first thing that anybody wants to know hearing that is why? why would he do that? >> scheck: you know, i've seen a lot of these cases, and i cannot get inside of his mind. i can just talk generally, that, you know, sometimes people break rules because they want to win. >> anderson: i want to formally apologize for the system's failure to mr. morton... >> logan: in his only public statement, late last year, judge anderson told reporters a mistake had been made, but he also said this.

>> anderson: in my heart, i know there was no misconduct whatsoever. >> logan: under oath, anderson has said there's no way he wouldn't have told the defense about those police reports in his file, but he couldn't specifically remember doing so. he wouldn't speak with us, but his lawyer, eric nichols, a former deputy attorney general of texas, told us those reports in his client's file would not have been enough to acquit michael morton. >> eric nichols: to suggest that my client did something wrong or committed a criminal law violation or violated the rules of ethics of the state of texas or elsewhere is completely unwarranted. >> logan: well, let me read to you what one of michael morton's original defense attorneys says on this subject, bill white, in his sworn affidavit. he says, "i had absolutely no idea at the time that eric had made a very specific statement about witnessing the murder in progress. it is clear to me that conscious decisions were made to conceal evidence and/or ignore the truth."

in spite of the 25 years, that seems to be very clear to me. is it to you? >> nichols: and it's also clear to my client that he would've had some discussions with the defense counsel about eric morton. the precise details, unfortunately, are lost to the sands of time. >> logan: take him at his word? that's all you have to offer? >> nichols: what you're talking about, lara... we are engaging in speculation about matters that occurred 25 years ago. >> logan: in february, a texas judge agreed with michael morton's legal team that there was probable cause to believe ken anderson violated the law, and anderson is now the subject of a special criminal inquiry. that's extremely rare. studies have shown prosecutors are hardly ever criminally charged or disciplined for serious error or misconduct. and one thing ken anderson doesn't have to worry about is being sued for damages by

michael morton, because the supreme court has ruled that prosecutors have "absolute immunity" from civil lawsuits for their legal work. doctors, lawyers, policemen-- there are all kinds of people who do their job with limited immunity or no immunity. it just seems hard to understand why prosecutors have to have a different standard to everybody else. >> nichols: seeing that justice is done, in many instances, requires very difficult judgments, and to come back behind those prosecutors and second-guess them or sue them would throw a wrench into that system of prosecutors seeking justice. >> logan: i have to say, there's a certain irony in hearing you say it's the job of a prosecutor to seek justice, right? because in this particular case, that's exactly what michael morton did not get. >> nichols: with the benefit of hindsight, with the benefit of d.n.a. test results that came available in 2011, you're absolutely correct. but the legacy of this case, the

morton case, should not be an effort to vilify prosecutors, either my client individually or all prosecutors in general. >> scheck: now, i want to make it very, very clear that i don't believe that there's an epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct in this country. on the other hand, it does happen. and this is a very important moment. we've had a whole series of cases in this country that have focused attention on this issue. >> logan: cases like the corruption trial of former alaska senator ted stevens. a special investigator found "systemic concealment" of evidence that would have helped the senator's case. in north carolina, this man spent eight years in prison even though someone else had confessed to the crime. his lawyers say the prosecutor never told them. in louisiana, this man discovered a few weeks before his scheduled execution that prosecutors hadn't disclosed a blood test that exonerated him.

>> morton: if you did those things, if you did the sort of stuff where you were hiding evidence from a homicide investigation, they'd lock you up in a minute. >> logan: that's the first time i've sensed any kind of anger in you. >> morton: i try to be very forgiving. but i'll be honest-- not only the actual murderer responsible for this, but the people who put me there, i wanted to get back at them. and when i finally let that go and put it away, it's like i dropped 25 pounds. i just felt... ahh! >> logan: michael morton was recently reunited with his son. he's received nearly $2 million under a texas law that provides compensation for people who are wrongfully convicted. >> morton: i don't have a lot of things really driving me. but one of the things is, i don't want this to happen to anybody else. revenge isn't the issue here. revenge, i know, doesn't work.

but accountability works. it's what balances out. it's the equilibrium. it's the... it's the social glue, in a way. because if you're not count... accountable, then you can do anything. >> hi, everyone. i'm greg gumbel. welcome to the cbs sports update presented by lou necessary tamp wrapping up this weekend's elite 8, top seed kentucky continues to dominate while kansas beats north carolina. louisville advanced yesterday along with ohio state. the final four is set. louisville plays kentucky, tipping next saturday at 6:09 eastern. ohio state and kansas tip at about 8:49 inch golf, tiger woods claims his first pga tour win since september of '09. for more sports news and information, go to for more sports news and information, go to cbssports.com.

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