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

[jleb956]

Some day these crooked and/or incompetent lawyers will get their comeuppance. No wonder they have to put armed guards in the courthouses.

[culturechang]

Its almost always a black man. And again no accountability for the prosecutor or police or witness testimony for this miscarraige of justice.

[hamiltongrad]

SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG HERE.
If a patient tells his pyschiatrist that he is going to kill someone, or has been doing something sexual with a minor,etc, there is a legal obligation of the MD to speak up to PROTECT the innocent, even with the patient doctor relationship.
... what is going on here is that the lawyers have crafted the laws once again to protect themselves from any liability, while they of course have everyone else at risk.
.... A similar case in Long Beach Ca Thomas Goldstein was in jail for 24 years, falsely accused of murder based soley on the prison testimony of a cell mate. There was no other evidence ! The same prisoner got lighter sentenceing 10 times for this. Can the (evil) prosecuter be sued for making such an evil deal ? We must all speak up when these lawyers and proscecutors have so much power.

I''m sure I will take a lot of flack for this but...Logan may have not committed this crime but he certainly wasn''t "innocent". Mr. Logan was a convicted felon. He was in the lineup because of the crimes he DID commit. If you live a life of crime and felons are being rounded up in your neighborhood...that is a position you have allowed yourself to be put in. Nobody should have to serve time for a crime they didn''t commit but mistakes happen and Mr. Logan has to accept some of the responsibility.

[queenofkelts]

I hope he sues the pants, shoes and socks off everyone involved in this absolute travesty of justice. It''s a crime and a sin and it needs to be punished. Harshly. And deservedly. Oh, wait, justice in this world is a word. ("Medea")

[skyk-2009]

THAT attorney Client relationship is anything BUT an agreement. IT''''s the backbone of our justice system... NO attorney can properly represent anyone without know the whole story. No one is going to give that whole story if some, most or all of that is going to be released or could be used against him in a court of law.. it''''s called the CONSTITUTION people. The Attorney is the VOICE of the Accused in Court. This poor man has NO chance or release of justice IF it isn''''t for the Attorney-Client rules. Does ANYONE honestly believe the REAL guilty man tells the attorney the truth IF he thinks that attorney is going to rat him out... the Attorney doesn''''t know then this never happens.


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Posted by MCVet at 12:22 PM : Apr 20, 2008
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You are right Sarge! People here should be focused on a Justice System more concerned with locking people up than finding the guilty. This man was NOT guilty as charged by the state. THAT means the system failed, the State''s Attorney brought an man to trial based of faulty evidence obtained by a Police who focused on the WRONG man. The system failed and failed badly. Blaming the Attorneys for not violating the Attorney Client Relationship is like shooting the messenger! Without that relationship the messenger doesn''t exist but the PROBLEM remains.

[mcvet]

Sending an innocent man to jail seems to be a criminal act. A Lawyer-Client confidentiality is a voluntary agreement by both parties. If such an agreement is made, knowing that an innocent man would go to jail, doesn''''t this indicate misconduct?


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Posted by stamford31 at 08:39 AM : Apr 20, 2008
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THAT attorney Client relationship is anything BUT an agreement. IT''s the backbone of our justice system... NO attorney can properly represent anyone without know the whole story. No one is going to give that whole story if some, most or all of that is going to be released or could be used against him in a court of law.. it''s called the CONSTITUTION people. The Attorney is the VOICE of the Accused in Court. This poor man has NO chance or release of justice IF it isn''t for the Attorney-Client rules. Does ANYONE honestly believe the REAL guilty man tells the attorney the truth IF he thinks that attorney is going to rat him out... the Attorney doesn''t know then this never happens.

[mcvet]

They had to get the bond money by taking up a collection in the courthouse lobby but they''''re taking him out to a steak and lobster dinner upon his release?


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Posted by imaok1 at 11:30 AM : Apr 20, 2008
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Yes??? Is there a point here or are you implying something. There were a lot of people who wanted to be part of his release so they kicked in.. Hard to imagine what point you are trying to make here... Seig Heil Y''all.

[georgew1956]

talk all the dumb ---- you want. they should throw the DA and the dectective in for 26 yrs this story should run the main story all week.

[imaok1]

They had to get the bond money by taking up a collection in the courthouse lobby but they''re taking him out to a steak and lobster dinner upon his release?