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Sep. 8, 2020
Modesto attorney’s death won’t stop his legal fight with DA
Frank C. Carson’s attorney said he was preparing a motion seeking to turn his civil rights and wrongful imprisonment case into a wrongful death case.
Frank C. Carson died Aug. 12. But the cantankerous Modesto criminal defense attorney's fight with local officials he claimed framed him for murder will go on.
Carson and two other men were acquitted last year of charges they were involved in the 2012 death of a Turlock man, Korey Kauffman. That attempted prosecution has led to multiple civil lawsuits being filed against Stanislaus County, District Attorney Birgit A. Fladager and ot...
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