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Again, Falsely Convicted Black Man Freed After Long Prison Stint
April 21st, 2008
Another example of why we must stringently oppose the injustice system, and not fall into the trap that accused automatically means guilty.
Here are a couple of previous post that bolster why this is especially true for Black people:
1. Black Teens SIX Times More Likely to be Sentenced to Jail than White Teens and
2. Another falsely convicted Black man is freed by DNA
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26 Year Lie
From Staff & Wire Service
Posted April 21, 2008 – Alton Logan, 56, was a young man when he was sent to prison for a murder he never committed.
On Friday, following the death of the real killer, Logan was released from the Cook County Jail after more than a quarter-century behind bars.
“Nobody deserves to be locked away for 26 years for something they didn’t do,” said Alton ’s brother, Eugene Logan, 48, of Portland , Oregon . “It’s a blessing today that my brother’s been released. He’s not been exonerated yet, but we’re going back to court, and it will happen”
It took the misfortune – or good fortune, depending on whose eyes you see it through – of another inmate’s death before the truth came out.
Two attorneys knew all along that it was their client, Andrew Wilson, who had killed security guard Lloyd Wickliffe at a McDonald’s fast-food joint in 1982. But attorney-client privilege had barred them from revealing it. When Wilson died, they were no longer bound by the credo.
“Poor Mr. Logan was locked up all these years for something he didn’t do, and that’s unfortunate that it worked out the way it did,” said Dale Coventry, one of Wilson’s attorneys. “I wish [the release] had happened a lot sooner, but unfortunately, there was no way to do anything.”
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26 years of his youth sucked away by American injustice.
It’s disturbing, ain’t it Rawdawg?
There are just some times when attorney client privilage should be able to be ignored.
Yes Urban Thought, this is the way it goes when we have a system that is more interested in serving itself, than it is in serving justice. It’s a legal system, not a justice system.
Well, while my emotional reaction might say the same thing Natalie, I don’t think that is wise. The guy would have likely never told his attorney’s if it were not for the attorney client privilege protection, and Logon would probably still be in jail.
Further it would prohibit defendants from being able to be honest with their attorneys, in fear of being ratted out by them; limiting their ability to get a proper defense, and shifting more power into the state’s hands in prosecutions.