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In January, the Chicago Tribune's Maurice Possley broke the story of Alton Logan's 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, as noted in this post. Yesterday, CBS News' 60 Minutes covered the Logan case in "26 Year Secret Kept Innocent Man in Prison."  You can watch the Bob Simon's report at the link.This is a story about an innocent man who has been in prison for 26 years while two attorneys who knew he was innocent stayed silent. They did so because they felt they had no choice. Alton Logan was convicted of killing a security guard at a McDonald's in Chicago in 1982. Police arrested him after a tip and got three eyewitnesses to identify him. Logan, his mother and brother all testified he was at home asleep when the murder occurred...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).