Could you ever just imagine that you were driving your car and was stopped by police for a crime you did not commit? They lock you up and accuse you, but you have no alibi. Put you in a line up and someone picks you out as the murderer. Coincidence would have it that the vehicle even matched yours. They have yelled and screamed at you so much that that you did it that you begin to think maybe I did... You get a lawyer, pick a jury get found guilty in less than a week. .Then the Judge sentence you to 40 years to life... Years and years go by with you saying I didn't do it but your cry goes unheard.
Then one day, a lawyer for another man who recently died in prison is ready to bare his soul that his client actual committed the crime but because of confidentiality he could not tell then but since he is dead , he can now. He kept the sealed affidavit in an envelope stored in a locked box, for 26 years.
Seem hard to believe that anything like that could ever happen? Well it did, and it happen to Alton Logan. I am sad to say that he is still in prison as of April 2008 waiting to go back to court to get released. I am sure that if he does, the state of Illinois owes Mr Logan a lottery ticket.
See how easy it was to make a mistake, that could have happened to me last night or last week. I'm just wonder how many times has it happened in the last 26 years?
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