A Wisconsin appeals court has overturned an attempted first-degree murder conviction of a man serving an 80-year prison sentence. The 3rd District Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday ordered a new trial for Cody Vandenberg, saying it was deserved in the interest of justice given that his co-defendant, Larry Pearson, has since confessed to the attack. Over the last 10 years, 22 law students at the Wisconsin Innocence Project at UW-Madison worked on the case and eventually got Pearson to confess at a post-conviction hearing in 2008.
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