Dane County prosecutors said today they will retry Ralph Armstrong, whose conviction for the 1980 rape and murder of University of Wisconsin student Charise Kamps was overturned last year by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said today that “after analyzing all the evidence in the case,” he has decided to prosecute the case again. Under terms of the high court decision, the state had the choice of going to trial again or of dropping the case altogether.