A Philadelphia man is coming home after being behind bars for more than 40 years after a judge ruled he was wrongfully convicted.
The daughters of William Franklin share how they're feeling after the news that their dad is coming home after 44 years behind barsA judge ruled on Wednesday that he was wrongfully convicted after being the victim of dirty police work.In 1980, Franklin was convicted of murder in Philadelphia but on Wednesday a judge vacated his conviction."Today means everything. I'm in shock," his daughter Lisa Justice said."I'm in awe. I don't think I can really express it.
Those good people are Joseph Marrone and his law firm team. They have spent years looking into Franklin's case. "The harder we dug, the better the case got. And we found out this case was part of an ongoing scandal in Philadelphia called the Sex for Lie scandal where there were a lot of bad detectives out there that would coerce witnesses to lie in exchange for sexual favors and this was at the core of it," Marrone said.The murder charge still stands, but Franklin was granted bail as the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will now decide to retry the case or drop the charges.
"We are looking forward," his daughter Sherri Griffin said."We don't want to make up anything because what's past is past. But, going forward, any amount of time he has left, that's what we want to embrace."
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