Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years /

Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years / Alton Logan, with Berl Falbaum.

Publisher's description: 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 Chica...

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Main Authors: Logan, Alton (Author), Falbaum, Berl, 1938- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]
Subjects:
Logan, Alton > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Murder) > United States.
False imprisonment > United States > Personal narratives.
Trials (False imprisonment) > United States.
African American prisoners > Biography.
Legal ethics > United States.
Lawyers > Malpractice > United States.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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