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Author Logan, Alton, author.

Title Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years / Alton Logan, with Berl Falbaum.

Publication Info. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2016]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  346.773 LOGAN    ---  Available
Description 181 pages ; 22 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Contents Background -- Arrest -- Creating the affidavit -- First trial, 1983 -- Appeal -- Second trial, 1994 -- Prison life -- More appeals and post-conviction efforts -- Affidavit discovered -- April 18, 2008 hearing -- Andrew Wilson's affidavit -- Exoneration, innocence certificate, civil suit -- Proposed changes in ethics code -- Readjustment -- Addendum.
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary Having no choice but to protect their own client---the true murderer---lawyers who could prove Alton Logan's innocence kept silent for over two decades.
Audience Ages 16 & up.
Grades 11 & up.
1080L Lexile.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject Logan, Alton -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Logan, Alton -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Logan, Alton -- Trials, litigation, etc.
False imprisonment -- United States -- Personal narratives.
Lawyers -- Malpractice -- United States.
Legal ethics -- United States.
Trials (False imprisonment) -- United States.
Trials (Murder) -- United States.
False imprisonment -- United States -- Personal narratives.
Lawyers -- Malpractice -- United States.
Legal ethics -- United States.
Trials (False imprisonment) -- United States.
Trials (Murder) -- United States.
False imprisonment -- United States -- Personal narratives.
Lawyers -- United States.
Legal ethics -- United States.
Trials (Homicide) -- United States.
Added Author Falbaum, Berl, 1938- author.
ISBN 9781619029927 (hardcover) : 17.30

 
    
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