Comments on: Innocent Man Free After 26 Years In Prison

Alton Logan Freed On Bond After Being Granted A New Trial In Someone Else's Crime

[jt_lancer]

Who will be held be responsible for this wrongful imprisonment of an innocent man for 26 years? Not the State. Not the prosecutors.

Unlike the private sector, the State and its minions are rarely held responsible for its actions.

If a private citizen held someone against their will for 26 years, they would certainly be held accountable for their actions.

Yet, no punishment will be meted out to the state prosecutors whose arguments led to this man''s imprisonment, as they are never held responsible for their ''mistakes''.

Also, here is a quote from The Oregonian:

Alton Logan had his run-ins with police, too. By age 28, he had served time for armed robbery. "There was a lot of gang banging, running with the wrong people," his brother explains. "That''s what got him in trouble. He caught a case with another guy and got caught up."

Here is the link to the story about his felony record. He brother is talking about it. You will have to scroll down the page because the top of the page is blank. You might want to copy and paste it into a word doc and then click on the link...easier that way if this doesn''t come across as a hyperlink.

http://www.theskanner.com/index.php?action=arteml&artid=6279&PHPSESSID=5e0a699e1c175f00573ce243bbdf5e46

[flajoe1]

Fact is we have all done something wrong and the Chicago police department has also. The original poster said something about "mistakes" made. Several police officers in the same Chicago area were recently indicted for torturing hundreds of men into confessing crimes during the same period. I''''m not sure these were innocent mistakes.
----

Posted by whatithink at 03:48 PM :

No, No,

I have NEVER done anything that would cause the police to suspect me of committing an armed robbery.

You will find that almost all people who have been sent to prison for something they did not do have had a past criminal history. They would have never been a suspect in the case if they had not broken the law in the past. Your chances of being picked up for something you did not do are almost zero if you have no criminal history. A simple life rule is to not invite the police or justice system into your life by committing a crime. I hope we could all agree on that?? :-)

[whatithink-2009]

Flajoe1,

By that token then the Duke guy who was falsely accused of rape was partially responsible because he had attacked a gay person previously or all of them were partially responsible for having the women in the house in the first place. However, these have never come up as a reason to blame them and shouldn''t have.

Fact is we have all done something wrong and the Chicago police department has also. The original poster said something about "mistakes" made. Several police officers in the same Chicago area were recently indicted for torturing hundreds of men into confessing crimes during the same period. I''m not sure these were innocent mistakes.

[tucano2]

The prosecuters only wished he could have been put on death row and murdered by the State before their own corrupt incompetence was exposed.

[flajoe1]

What site did you find that information? I tried to do a search but came up empty.
----

Posted by whatithink at 03:39 PM

heres the link

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/renee_mitchell/index.ssf?/base/news/120831631513130.xml&coll=7

It was on page 2

[flajoe1]

Justice is not served by arresting people not involved in a case.
----
Posted by whatithink at 03:15 PM

You are correct innocent people should not go to prison we all agree on that.

But the original post that started this thread stated he does bare some responsibly for his situation. If he had never committed a crime to begin with he would not have been on the police radar. The fact is he did match the description; he did have a history of arm robbery that%u2019s what made him a suspect. If you never want to be picked up for suspicion of armed robbery you should have never committed an armed robbery in the first place.

Those two lawyers are s c u m for not coming forward when they found out he was innocent. Even if it was the legal thing to do it was still WRONG!

[whatithink-2009]

Flajoe1,

What site did you find that information? I tried to do a search but came up empty.

[whatithink-2009]

Flajoe1,

Thanks. I found nothing on him having any other convictions and read someone had tipped the police to his name. Anyway, I agree with the other poster that said we are not living in Nazi Germany. You should only do time for crimes you have actually committed and once you have done time for that crime, you have paid your debt to society. Justice is not served by arresting people not involved in a case.