Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years / Alton Logan, with Berl Falbaum.
2016
KF224.L62 L64 2016 (Mapit)
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Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years / Alton Logan, with Berl Falbaum.
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Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]
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xli, 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Background
Arrest
Creating the affidavit
First trial, 1983
Appeal
Second trial, 1994
Prison life
More appeals and post-conviction efforts
Affidavit discovered
April 18, 2008 hearing
Andrew Wilson's affidavit
Exoneration, innocence certificate, civil suit
Proposed changes in ethics code
Readjustment
Addendum.
Arrest
Creating the affidavit
First trial, 1983
Appeal
Second trial, 1994
Prison life
More appeals and post-conviction efforts
Affidavit discovered
April 18, 2008 hearing
Andrew Wilson's affidavit
Exoneration, innocence certificate, civil suit
Proposed changes in ethics code
Readjustment
Addendum.
Summary
"Justice Failed is the story of Alton Logan, an African American man who served twenty-six years in prison for a murder he did not commit. In 1983, Logan was falsely convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Cook County corrections officer, Lloyd M. Wickliffe, at a Chicago-area McDonald's, and sentenced to life in prison. While serving time for unrelated charges, Andrew Wilson - the true murderer - admitted his guilt to his own lawyers, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz. However, bound by the legal code of ethics known as the absolutism of client-attorney privilege, Coventry and Kunz could not take action. Instead, they signed an affidavit proclaiming Logan's innocence and locked the document in a hidden strong box. It wasn't until after Wilson's death in 2007 that his lawyers were able to come forward with the evidence that would eventually set Alton Logan free after twenty-six years in prison" -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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KF224.L62 L64 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781619029927 hardcover
1619029928 hardcover
1619029928 hardcover
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