A 26-year-old secret could free inmate
(AP)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080412/capt.c11d524de4a64a6dbb61ed2f75fdbd9d.the_26_year_silence_ny368.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=MX9j662supveVQEYHluOww--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Inmate Alton Logan speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in a visitors room at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Ill., Thursday, March, 27, 2008. Logan has been in prison for 26 years for a murder he claims he did not commit. Two lawyers for another inmate, Andrew Wilson, who died late last year, say their client confirmed in 1982 that he killed a security guard ? the crime for which Logan is serving a life sentence. Those lawyers recently came forward with an affidavit they signed 26 years ago declaring Logan was not responsible for the fatal shooting. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_re_us/the26_year_silence)AP - For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other times under his bed.</p><br clear="all"/>
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