Ex-Fort Worth officer convicted of raping girl is free after 21 years, but prosecutors plan new trial Tom Steele
A former Fort Worth officer convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl has been freed after serving 21 years of a life sentence, but prosecutors plan to retry him.
Brian Franklin, 56, posted $10,000 bail Thursday, The Associated Press reported.
“We are headed to a new trial,” Tarrant County prosecutor Bill Vassar told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “If the defense would like to plead we will consider that.”
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled last month that Franklin’s conviction should be thrown out because his accuser later admitted that she lied during his 1995 trial.
Brian Franklin
The court said that her testimony led others to give false testimony.
The woman, now in her 30s, admitted two years ago that she lied in part of her testimony. But she remains adamant that Franklin raped her in her father’s backyard in March 1994.
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