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Re-arrest unusual for Innocence Project (AP)

MADISON – Christopher Ochoa and Steven Avery lived the same nightmare.

Both spent years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, and both walked out free men after DNA tests exonerated them, thanks to work by the Wisconsin Innocence Project. But while Ochoa is now a semester away from finishing law school, Avery is back behind bars, this time on a murder charge in the death of 25-year-old freelance photographer Teresa Halbach.