John Wesley Raley III is an American attorney based in the state of Texas. He is best known for his work in the legal defense of Michael Morton and Hannah Overton. On May 2, 2018, Raley was appointed by Harris County, Texas District Attorney Kim Ogg to conduct an independent review of Alfred Dewayne Brown's overturned murder conviction from 3 years prior. Michael Morton case Michael Morton was a Texas man that was wrongfully convicted in 1987 in Williamson County, Texas for his wife's murder in 1986. Morton insisted that he was innocent while being sent to prison, claiming "I did not do this". The jury foreman of the case at the time of conviction said "We all felt so strongly that this was justice for Christine and that we were doing the right thing." After a request from co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, John Raley took over the case pro bono along with Nina Morrison of the Innocence Project. In February 2005, Morrison and Raley filed a motion for the DNA testing of Morton. For 6 years, Morrison and Raley fought in state and federal courts until they finally were granted a court order to have a bloody bandana tested. In an interview with 60 Minutes about the case, Raley spoke about the moment when he found police reports that he felt should have been shared with the original defense team, Raley said "It was one of those moments where you almost faint, to hold in my hand a copy of the document that the district attorney at the time had but didn't tell anyone on the defense-side...[That document] would have proved [Morton's] innocence." In 2010, Morton was offered parole if he expressed remorse over murdering his wife. Raley told the Texas Tribune about the conversation he had with Morton on the subject: "...Michael said that he understood that he would be paroled if he only showed remorse for his crime. And I said, 'What are you going to do?' I didn’t feel like I could advise him on that because, I mean, you know [it had been] 23 years now. I don’t think anybody would have blamed him if he said, 'I’m really sorry, let me go.' But Michael is a man of great integrity, and he would not lie to get out of prison. And he said, 'All I have left is my actual innocence,