Alton Logan served 26 years of a life sentence in prison for a
crime he did not commit. He was formally declared innocent on April
17, 2009. Alton currently lives with his wife, Terry, in
Chicago.
BERL FALBAUM's career includes ten years as a political reporter
for The Detroit News, four years in state politics as
administrative aide to Michigan's lieutenant governor, and fifteen
years in corporate public relations. He also taught journalism
part-time at Wayne State University in Detroit for 45 years. He is
the author of eight books, including Shanghai Remembered, the story
of how 20,000 Jews escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe during
World War II, which received an award from the Independent
Publishers Association.
Praise for Justice Failed
An Official Junior Library Guild Selection, Adult Crossover
Nonfiction
"Alarming and timely, Justice Failed is a must–read for anyone
hoping to better understand the reality of modern American criminal
justice." —New York Journal of Books
"A shocking tale of wrongful conviction . . . that brings general
conditions into cruelly sharp focus." —Kirkus Reviews
"In simple, unadorned prose, Logan tells his story of the gravely
flawed justice system that imprisoned him, an innocent man, for
nearly three decades . . . A powerful argument that will appeal to
readers of Michael Morton’s Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25–Year
Journey from Prison to Peace." —Library Journal
"The story of the wrongful conviction of Alton Logan in Chicago
stands out as perhaps one of the most unusual and cruel stories in
the history of American jurisprudence. Convicted of a 1982 murder
and sentenced to life in prison, Logan was not only innocent, but
lawyers for the real killer knew it all along and, citing legal
ethics, kept it a secret for more than a quarter of a century
before revealing the evidence that set Logan free." —Maurice
Possley, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times
best–selling author of The Brown’s Chicken Massacre and Everybody
Pays
"This remarkable first–person story, told by an innocent man who
lost twenty–six years of his life for a crime he did not commit,
not only presents the dilemma that criminal defense attorneys face
when their client confesses to them, but also recounts how a serial
police torturer named Jon Burge framed him, and a racist ‘justice’
system sealed his fate." —G. Flint Taylor, longtime attorney at the
People’s Law Office in Chicago, who has represented numerous
wrongfully convicted victims of Chicago police torture
"This is a superb book about a tragedy in which legal ethics stood
perversely in the way of justice, costing an innocent man more than
a quarter century of his life." —Rob Warden, codirector of
Injustice Watch, Inc., and executive director emeritus of the
Center on Wrongful Conviction, Northwestern University School of
Law
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