CHICAGO, Jan. 15, 2013 -- Today the Finance Committee of the Chicago City Council voted in favor of the largest single award in the history of the Jon Burge torture cases, awarding more than $10 million in compensation and attorneys' fees to Alton Logan and his lawyers, Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law. The full City Council is expected to vote on the proposed settlement Thursday.

Logan served 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Not only was there no physical evidence linking Logan to the crime, Thomas Bennett, a licensed attorney and former CPD detective, disclosed under oath that disgraced former police commander Jon Burge openly bragged about Logan being wrongfully convicted, and that the real killer was Andrew Wilson. Wilson confessed that after committing the murder for which Logan did the time, less than a month later Wilson went on to kill again, this time two Chicago Police officers.

The suit, Alton Logan v. Jon Burge, et al., No. 09 CV 5471, accused Burge at least six of his former colleagues of knowingly suppressing exculpatory evidence from Logan and his attorneys and manipulating witnesses to falsely finger Logan for the crime. Much of the suppressed evidence, including another man's confession, eyewitness testimony and a police line-up, pointed to Wilson and another man, Edgar Hope, as the perpetrators of the crime.