Killer Loses Appeal in Repressed-Memory Case
A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday with a lower court’s decision to throw out a civil rights lawsuit brought by the first man convicted of murder after testimony based on repressed memories.
George Franklin was convicted in 1990 after his daughter, Eileen Franklin Lipsker, said more than 20 years after the murder that she recalled seeing her father crush 8-year-old Susan Nason’s skull with a rock.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals also partially cleared Lipsker of liability in a lawsuit that fueled national debate about the legal reliability of repressed memory.
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