A decades-old homicide charge was dismissed Monday against a Milwaukee man who spent nearly two dozen years in prison before new forensics tests raised questions about the evidence used to convict him.
Robert Lee Stinson, 44, shook hands with his attorneys, then hugged several relatives who wiped tears from their eyes.
The new tests on the evidence were conducted at the urging of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison law students and professors who work to overturn wrongful convictions.