PORTLAND, Ore. - A man who has spent nearly three decades in prison for the 1989 killing of Oregon’s prisons director was freed Friday while the state appeals the ruling that led to his release. Frank Gable left prison after a U.S. magistrate found in April that the trial court made an error in excluding evidence of third-party guilt, The Oregonian/OregonLive reports . “We don’t really want to talk about the case or nothing, just glad to be out,” Gable told Fox 4 News. Francke’s brothers, Pat and Kevin Francke, have been staunch defenders of Gable and believe he was wrongly convicted. Gable was convicted in the stabbing death in Salem of prisons chief Michael Francke, 42, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Source: thestar June 28, 2019 19:41 UTC