California IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Book Cited in Murder Appeal
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Lawyers for George T. Franklin Sr., convicted of a 20-year-old murder based on his daughter’s repressed memory, cited her recent book about the case in asking a state appeals court to overturn his conviction. Eileen Franklin-Lipsker’s 1991 memoir, “Sins of the Father,” is “a crucial source of new evidence supporting (Franklin’s) claim for a new trial,” his lawyers said in papers filed with the 1st District Court of Appeal. Among other things, they argued, the book reveals that the father’s rights were violated in a jailhouse visit by his daughter and that she concealed her true motives for reporting him to police. Deputy Atty. Gen. Bruce Ortega, the state’s lawyer in the case, could not be reached for comment.
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