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An Update on Alton Logan

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The Chicago Tribune's Mary Owen reports, "Lawyer testifies his ex-client had cleared man still in prison for '82 killing."     Edgar Hope tried to do the right thing. Hope, a convicted killer, told his lawyer in 1982 that his co-defendant, Alton Logan, was not with him during a fatal shooting at a South Side  McDonald's that  year. In fact, Hope told lawyer Marc Miller that he had never  seen Logan before, Miller testified.    Hope "told me to tell [Logan's attorney] that he's representing an innocent man," Miller testified Monday at a hearing before Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Schreier. Miller said Hope told him that his usual partner-in-crime, Andrew Wilson, was the other man involved...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).