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[email protected] SEVENTY FIVE CENTS ‘76 Murder Suspect Had Served on Vandalism Panel, Burglary Arrest By LAUREN S. BARR as they are not permitted to comment dered Ms. Triano. According to the Specially Written for The Westfield Leader on juvenile matters. article, Franklin was ap- WESTFIELD – In the wake of an Despite the fact that the pointed by then Fourth arrest made in the brutal 1976 rape suspect is now 51 years Ward Council candidate and murder of Lena Triano, despite old, he was a juvenile at Herb Kessler. Mr. being charged as a juvenile, The Star the time the crime was Kessler was elected to Ledger revealed the name of the ac- committed, and thus has the seat, and chose to cused as Carlton Franklin, a 1979 to be treated as a juve- serve a single term. When graduate of Westfield High School, nile and under the laws contacted by The Leader, who was just 15 at the time of the as they existed in 1976. Mr. Kessler said that he murder. According to The has “no recollection of While the Union County Prosecu- Westfield Leader ar- that event” and said that tor Theodore Romankow had said chives, Franklin was it was likely that Franklin appointed to a Youth was recommended to last week that he would file a motion Carlton Franklin to have the suspect’s name released, Advisory Committee him by another commit- the prosecutor’s office could not com- on Vandalism in September of 1977, tee member.