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    Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years
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    Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years

    By Alton Logan and Berl Falbaum

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  • Alton Logan went to prison for 26 years for a crime he did not commit. Fans of true crime (“Making a Murderer”, "Serial," "The People vs. OJ Simpson", "The Jinx") will be interested in this tale of how the justice system failed this man
  • In the vein of the award-winning and New York Times bestselling PICKING COTTON by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino or JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson
  • When Logan was freed in 2008, his case made national news (CBS, NBC, ABC), and his case is one of those celebrated by The Innocence Project and taught in law schools across the country
  • A timely first-person account as the nation's attention remains firmly fixed on Chicago and the Midwest's complicated and racially charged interactions between the African-American community and both law enforcement and the criminal justice system
  • Early endorsements sought from Barry Scheck (who was on the O.J. Simpson defense team and founded the Innocence Project in New York); Maurice Possley (a former Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Chicago Tribune and now with The National Registry of Exonerations), Karen Daniel (of the Center for Wrongful Convictions), and G. Flint Taylor (of the People’s Law Office)
  • Author available for ALA Annual programming
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    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCounterpoint
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9781619029941
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    Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years
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    Alton Logan

    ALTON LOGAN served 26 years of a life sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was formally declared innocent on April 17, 2009. Alton currently lives with his wife, Terry, in Chicago.

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      The authors present a very serious problem with client-attorney privilege. Alton Logan, a 26-year-old African American was arrested for the shooting murder of a security guard at McDonalds in 1982 in Chicago's South side. He spent 26 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. His two attorneys also had the real murderer as their client. The real murdered told them that Alton Logan was innocent. He even signed an affidavit stating the same and to be revealed at his death. Because of attorney client privilege, neither attorney made the information public until after the murdered had died. The first section of the book discusses that rule and why it is immoral. The aim of justice as per John Adams who became the second president, it is better to have many guilty to go free than to cause an innocent person to be put to death or imprisoned. So, this needs to be fixed and the authors have proposed solutions in the back of the book. Not only was that very important information withheld but so was the testimony of some witnesses who said that Mr. Logan was not the McDonald, the information about the gun and the fact that Mr. Logan never possessed a gun. To make it a perfect storm, his case at times involve prosecutors driven by ambition, mistreatment of his brother when he was arrested and the lack of a good investigation.Since Alton Logan dropped out of school he was unable to find a job. Later while in prison, he earned his GED and took some vocational education courses. But after he was released he still was unable to find work. That gap of 26 years on his resume was death of his job search. He is now getting help for his unemployment and other problems. But I think that much more help is needed. I would what the current program for high school drop outs and people are who have a prior record. So, this book brings up quite a few questions.I received an advanced copy of this book from the Publisher as a win from FirstReads but that in no way made a difference in my thoughts or feelings in this review