Alton Logan has been in prison for 26 years. Sentenced to life for murdering a McDonalds security guard in Chicago. Problem is, he didn’t do it. Edgar Hope, another man arrested for the crime, told his lawyer that he didn’t know Alton Logan. Hope said, a third man arrested, Andrew Wilson, was actually his ‘right hand man.’
When asked, Andrew Wilson ‘gleefully’ told his lawyers, Jamie Kunz and Dave Coventry, that he killed the security guard and signed an affidavit to make it official.

This guy could have been doing his Wee-Bey thing..
..but Kunz believed Wilson was telling the truth, and tied other inconsistencies in the case to Logan’s innocence.

Kunz and Coventry decided to keep silent on Wilson’s confession, sighting the law (client-attorney privilege) as the reason they couldn’t ‘rat out’ their client.

“If I had ratted him out ... then I could feel guilty, then I could not live with myself,” Kunz said. I’m anguished and always have been over the sad injustice of Alton Logan’s conviction. Should I do the right thing by Alton Logan and put my client’s neck in the noose or not? It’s clear where my responsibility lies and my responsibility lies with my client.”

His personal guilt vs. Logan spending his life in prison.. think on that.

They did hold on to the affidavit though, thinking that one day they could use it guilt-free. Meanwhile, they watched as Alton Logan was herded through the case. Kunz said it was ‘creepy’ watching an innocent man go through the process and once convicted, he was reminded of the affidavit every time an innocent man was let out of prison.

Andrew Wilson recently died in jail, giving Kunz the ‘right’ to crack that envelope.

He called his former colleague, Dave Coventry, to make things right.
“We’re both getting on in years,” Kunz said. “We ought to do something with that affidavit to make sure it’s not wasted in case we both leave this good Earth.”

With the affidavit revealed there is still no guarantee Alton Logan will be freed. A court hearing is set for April 18 where his attorney will ask for a new trial. That would require gathering witnesses some two decades removed from the case. Logan’s winning lottery ticket scenario would have the case thrown out completely.

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