The nightmare of Alton Logan

Watch the real-life story of a secret that has kept an innocent man in prison for 26 years—because two lawyers who knew that his claim of innocence was true considered themselves legally bound to remain silent. They knew that the convicted man, Alton Logan, was innocent because their client, Andrew Wilson, had confessed to them—in confidence—over a quarter century ago. But according to them they were not free to reveal what they knew until the recent death of their client. Because the confession was privileged information.

Those of you familiar with SILENT COUNSEL know that it deals with this issue of attorney/client confidentiality in the context of a lawyer bound to protect the identity of a hit-and-run driver responsible for the death of a young boy. This real life case—which came to the public's attention six months after the publication of SILENT COUNSEL—shows that the relationship between fiction and fact can be pretty scary at times…

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That's not a commentary on the content of the interview: It's most
certainly G-rated, and not R-rated!
It's geek talk for guarding your computer hackers--which I'm not.