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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. But a jury found him guilty of first degree murder.

Now new evidence reveals that Logan did not commit that murder. But as correspondent Bob Simon reports, the evidence was not new to those two attorneys, who knew it all along but say they couldn't speak out until now.

Alton Logan's story cuts to the core of America's justice system.

Die legendäre CBS-Sendung "60 Minutes" berichtet von Rechtsanwälten, die ihre Verschwiegenheitsverpflichtung sehr ernst nahmen.

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Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).