Legal Opinion
George Thomas Franklin v. Jim Fox Martin Murray Robert Morse Bryan Cassandro John Cuneo, Sergeant Eileen Franklin-Lipsker
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 27, 2002No. 01-15052PublishedCited by 480 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
In 1989, Defendant Eileen Franklin-Lipsker (“Franklin-Lipsker”) informed the police that she had been an eyewitness to the 1969 sexual molestation and murder of her eight-year-old best friend, Susan Na-son. She implicated her father, Plaintiff George Franklin (“Franklin”), in the twenty-year-old unsolved case; a San Mateo County, California jury convicted him of first degree murder. Franklin served five years of a life sentence before a federal district court granted him a writ of habeas corpus due to unconstitutional errors in his state court trial. Franklin…
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