A Dane County judge on Friday overturned the conviction of a man who served more than six years in prison for a sexual assault that new DNA evidence indicates he did not commit. Judge Patrick Fiedler ordered the release of 45-year-old Forest S. Shomberg, citing new DNA evidence and fresh research on faulty eyewitness identification. The Wisconsin Innocence Project took up Shomberg’s case, armed with powerful new evidence not available in 2002: DNA found on the victim’s pantyhose did not match Shomberg.
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