FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A woman admits she lied in part of her testimony against an ex-Fort Worth police officer convicted of raping her when she was 13, but reaffirmed that the officer was still guilty of the attack.
The woman testified Thursday at a hearing ordered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which opened the door this year to reconsidering the case of the officer, Brian Franklin.
The court gave Franklin a new chance to argue that his conviction and life sentence should be overturned. Prosecutors stood by the testimony of the accuser, now 33.
Sitting in a wheelchair, the woman said Thursday that she didn’t disclose that her stepfather was raping her because she was scared of him.
Franklin’s lawyers argued that omission would have drastically changed the case against him.
