Comments on: 26-Year Secret Kept Innocent Man In Prison

Lawyers Tell 60 Minutes They Were Legally Bound From Revealing Secret

[romeaux]

good thought, Questionnews; but these guys, as prosecutors still would have gotten their conviction had they done the right thing and told another prosecutor (anonymously) to investigate Wilson.....scum is too good a term.

[hungry1968]

"26-Year Secret Kept Innocent Man In Prison
Lawyers Tell 60 Minutes They Were Legally Bound From Revealing Secret"





Further proof that our legal system is irreparably broken and needs to be massively overhauled and / or replaced altogether.

Either way, these two lawyers should be jailed and they should PERSONALLY be forced to pay this man''s restitution - even if it means bankrupting them. (That is bankrupting them financially - they''re obviously already bankrupt morally.)

[nolalou]

This is more an issue of the law needing to be changed. If the lawyers violated the law, and repeated what their client told them, they not only would face disbarment, and no longer be able to practice law, they could also be prosecuted themselves. To reveal what a client tells his or her lawyer is illegal! Yeah, it stinks in this case, and it may be easy for us blame the lawyers, but I blame the law in this case.

[kevsan1]

Another case in point about what is wrong in the legal system. Of course, as long as we have lawyers running things in Washington and elsewhere, this is what we''re going to get. One more reason not to vote for Hillary and her kind. This is not justice. Justice has been perverted by those in its system.

[killtheliars]

If i were him since i was used to prison i would go kill both of the lawyers. when the system doesn''t give you justice you have to get it yourself!

[antoniof123]

One other thing this guy is still in jail. Why?

[caliengineer]

I think those lawyers are scum. I''ll bet, like other lawyers, they squeeze and manipulate and jump through loopholes all the time.

But not for someone else. Not for this guy they don''t know, who isn''t their client.

And, btw, doctors and priests are required by law to report confessions of murder or plans for murder.

[asor1-2009]

If thier lips are moving.... They let an innocent man waste away in prison. Cowards, even before their known attribute of being liars.

[questionnews]

Prosecutors are in no way interested in finding the truth. They are all about getting a conviction regardless of the facts and they don%u2019t seem to care one hoot about whether or not they are sending an innocent person to jail. It%u2019s built into their job! The only way for a prosecutor to move up the ladder or to be recognized for promotions is to compare the number of convictions he has gotten based on the number of cases tried. If they actually pursued %u201Ctruth & justice%u201D the ratio of conviction under their belt would drop and they go nowhere in their profession. For a prosecutor the only way to move up in job status in to ignore the truth & fact and shaft anyone they can for their own. Sad but true.

[theusa1st]

These two lawyers are another example of human selfishness....and yes they are just pure scum. They are morally bankrupt and deserve to rot in HELL for what they did to this poor man...absolutely appalling.

[ivandrago]

The law should be changed to say hey if you (the criminal) tell me you did it I''m required to reveal it. The lawyer should never have to become an accomplice to a crime. If it''s not an attorney you would go to jail for not revealing such things.

[tireslinger]

The two men that kept quiet can call thereselves attorneys because they went to school, and passed their bars...but much more importantly, can they call themselves decent human beings...absolutely not! They may have abided by legal law, and of course, saved their careers, but it''s a good thing that one cannot be prosecuted for violating moral law. Twenty six years of a human beings life is gone, he can''t get it back...not ever. He can''t be paid enough money to make it worth it...ever. Shame on both of you...I wouldn''t partake of either of your services, even if you offerred it for free!

[antoniof123]

Logan had 26 years in prison to try to understand why he was convicted for a crime he didn''t commit.

Logan, still in jail,

"The rules of conduct for attorneys, it''s very, very clear%u2026. We''re in a position to where we have to maintain client confidentiality, just as a priest would or a doctor would. It''s just a requirement of the law. The system wouldn%u2019t work without it," says Coventry.

So when Jefferson said it is better for 100 guilty men to go free then 1 to face the gallows I guess to these guys he wasn''t talking to them.

There are rules and orders that you should not follow they are a crime all in themselves. If these men knew I have no sympothy for them they are more crimanal then the murderer who commited the crime.

Sad world where an innocent man faces the gallows and a guilty man walks free for the crime.