Yet Another Wrongful Conviction in Brooklyn and the NYPD's Review of Murder Arrests

Albert Samaha

In 1997, Roger Logan, then 36, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison. Prosecutors said that he had killed Sherwin Gibbons on the night of July 24 after somebody stole Logan's gold chain during a dice game earlier that day.

The strongest evidence against him was an eye witness who identified him at trial as the killer. Aisha Jones testified that she had seen Logan around the neighborhood throughout the day. She had seen in him playing dice in the afternoon, and she had seen him fire ten shots in the vestibule of a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building.

Seventeen years later, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has released Logan, and a judge has vacated has conviction. Jones, the D.A.'s office discovered, had been in police custody almost all day on July 24, 1997.

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