William Franklin was released after a jailhouse informant admitted that police had threatened him and bribed him with access to sex, to get him to frame Franklin for the murder of Joseph Hollis.
William Franklin, center, embraces his daughters Rasheedah Franklin, left, and Gina Gibson after his release from prison. He served 44 years.Back in the late 1970s, Emanuel “Manny” Claitt was facing numerous criminal cases that carried decades or even life in prison.
Franklin is now on house arrest, pending the Philadelphia District Attorney’s decision as to whether to appeal her ruling or to retry him. But his family, lawyers, and advocates, who gathered outside a Philadelphia jail to greet him, say there’s no way to salvage the case against him — which was tainted by a 40-year-old police scandal that a 2021 Inquirer investigation calledThey celebrated with lunch at the North Philadelphia home of Franklin’s grandson Steve Crawford Jr.
But Brandeis-Roman said she wasn’t convinced by the DA’s argument. “This would permit the Commonwealth to essentially rig the game” and avoid future scrutiny, she said.that exposed the alleged pattern spearheaded by homicide detectives Larry Gerrard and Ernest Gilbert. Gerrard and Gilbert are deceased. In 1990, after a man’s conviction was overturned based on his claim that the detectives offered him access to sex if he confessed to a murder, Gerrard said the allegation was “a lie.
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