Alton Logan Should Be Set Free

The most incredible secret has been just exposed by the two lawyers, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz, who have kept it hidden for 26 years. They knew, when Alton Logan was charged in 1986 with the murder of a McDonald's security guard, that he was innocent of the crime; but, they did nothing to prevent his being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. A man they were defending at the time on charges of being a cop killer confessed to them that he was the one who had pulled the trigger on the guard. Pleading lawyer-client confidentiality as the reason for their previous silence, they have finally come forward to reveal the knowledge that could have spared an innocent man years of hell. "It's been difficult for us" they whine, when asked in an interview on "60 Minutes" what they would say to Logan if they met him face-to-face. "Alton, whether or not you can understand it, we've been hurting for you for 26 years," says Kunz. When they were quoted to Logan, his succinct reply was the question, "How has it been difficult for them?" A valid question, indeed. During the interview, they were asked if they would have continued to maintain their silence if Logan had been sentenced to death. They insisted they would have been allowed by the code of lawyer-client confidentiality to prevent a death, but they could not explain what the difference was between saving him from death row and saving him from wrongful conviction and incarceration. Logan's comment on the difference between the two sentences is that there is no difference. A death sentence and life behind bars is all the same, according to him. Asked if they couldn't have somehow leaked the news to anyone, the two attorneys deny it would have done any good to do so. How can they say that? If they had leaked the truth, it might have resulted in a mistrial being declared. It might have resulted in life continuing on for Alton Logan, a man who was at home, asleep, when the security guard was killed. Instead, it all came to a screeching halt with his conviction, and he lost 26 years of his life, at the very least. The total time loss to him can not yet be calculated because there has to be due process of law, and the wheels of justice grind slow. These two pantywaist attorneys and their affidavit should be enough for Logan to be declared innocent and set free without another trial. The man should be allowed to leave the jail; to leave the state of Illinois, as he wants to do; to get on with a life already truncated by the injustice Kunz and Coventry foisted on him. How they can have the nerve to declare they were "hurting" is beyond me. If they truly had been hurting, they would have come forward. If doing so had cost them their livelihood as lawyers, so be it. Keeping their pay cheques and comfy lifestyle cost Logan everything he valued in his life. He was not able, for instance, to attend his mother's funeral. I wonder what monetary value Coventry and Kunz would set on that; how they would assign that a value on the "hurting" scale? When you are made privy to information that could have such a disastrous effect on a man's life in its absence, you are not being put into an easy position. No-one would argue that. The bottom line is; what is right and what is wrong? It was wrong of them to sit back and see Logan imprisoned for 26 years. Watch the video and you'll see the two of them trying to paint themselves as heroes for obtaining the permission of the actual murderer to come forward after his death. When I saw that, one thing that crossed my mind was the unknown aspect of his time of death, at the time they were obtaining this permission. What if he had outlived Logan? They had no way of knowing whether or not he would.
Watch the video and see what you think. Be prepared for an annoying ad at the beginning of it, but stay with it and you'll meet Logan and the two conspirators who took part in the ruining of his life. See what you think of their actions.