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...lawyers are finding that more and more cases turn on the question of how reliable memory is. Last November in Redwood City, Calif., George Franklin was convicted of killing an eight-year-old girl in 1969; the case was based largely on the testimony of his daughter Eileen Franklin- Lipsker, who had repressed the memory of her playmate's murder for 20 . years. This month in Pittsburgh, Steven Slutzker is scheduled to go on trial for the 1975 fatal shooting of John Mudd Sr. Slutzker was charged after the victim's son, who was 5 when his father died, claimed...
...something that made Susie look up at me. She met my eyes." That look, she testified, was replicated by her own six-year-old daughter one day in January 1989, when she looked up from her coloring and asked, "Isn't that right, Mommy?" It triggered Franklin-Lipsker's first memory. She remembers seeing a smashed ring on Susan's bloodied finger and then being grabbed from behind by her father, who knocked her down and told her that this was her fault. It was her idea to invite Susan into the van, he said; if she told about this...
...Franklin-Lipsker's story has some corroboration. The prosecution's other witnesses testified that a mattress was found over Susan's body and that the girl died of a skull fracture, possibly from a rock. The defense intends to point out discrepancies in what Eileen told various family members and her marriage counselor. Also, she could have learned circumstances of the murder from Susan Nason's older sister Shirley, who was present when the police visited the Nason family after the body had been found. A curious fact that can be used to different effect by both sides is that...
...defense is also expected to show that Franklin-Lipsker hopes to profit from her story. She has been deluged with book and movie deals by literary agents and entertainment lawyers, and it may not help that she told her story to NBC News in January...
Judge James Browning Jr., who as a U.S. attorney in 1976 prosecuted Patty Hearst for a Symbionese Liberation Army bank holdup, is expected to turn the case over to a jury. Franklin-Lipsker explained to NBC why she is putting her family through such a wrenching ordeal. "There was nothing I could do at the time to protect Susan," she said. "I was the only other person there. And I just feel that I owe it to her to tell the truth." Whatever the outcome, it is hard to imagine the Franklins being like other families again. If they ever...