Decision on retrying Alton Logan postponed

Illinois prosecutors still haven't determined whether they will retry a man locked away 26 years for murder who was freed in April after it was learned another man confessed to the crime.

Judge James Schreier vacated Alton Logan's conviction and ordered a new trial. Since then, the Illinois attorney general's office has been weighing whether to retry him. Logan is free on $10,000 bond.

The attorney general's office was to make its decision on whether Logan will be retried known Thursday. But Richard Schwind, chief of the criminal enforcement division, told Schreier the office won't make a decision until August 12, Logan's next court date.

Logan was convicted of the fatal shooting of security guard Lloyd Wickliffe at a McDonald's restaurant in January 1982.

Two attorneys recently revealed their former client, Andrew Wilson, admitted to committing the crime.