Source: Star-Telegram
Author: Star-Telegram
Date: May 10, 2016
Photo Credit: Paul Moseley, Star-Telegram
“I’m not the only innocent man in prison,” former Fort Worth police officer Brian Edward Franklin said after an appeals court determined that he had been wrongly convicted and granted him a new trial.
Franklin spent 21 years in prison, accused of the sexual assault of a child, which he has steadfastly denied. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found conflicting elements in his accuser’s testimony.
“The district attorney’s office does not believe there are innocent people in prison from Tarrant County,” he said. Do you believe there are? How much does that bother you?
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