WISCASSET (AP) — A man convicted of a fatal shooting in Maine in 1987 will be released in the wake of revelations that a Federal Bureau of Investigation analysis of evidence used against him may have been flawed.
Frank Fournier has served 28 years of a 50-year prison term and will be released at the end of the week. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/298MruK ) reports Fournier is one of five Maine men whose homicide convictions had been flagged as potentially flawed.
Justice Daniel Billings ruled that the judge who sentenced Fournier in 1988 relied in part on the evidence in determining Fournier’s sentence and may have improperly enhanced it. Fournier was resentenced on Tuesday.
Fournier is now 70 years old and was convicted of murder for fatally shooting 20-year-old David Mooers in Portland.
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