Forest Shomberg, a Madison man sentenced to twelve years in prison after being convicted of a sexual assault was released on November 13, 2009, through the efforts of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick Fiedler overturned Shomberg’s conviction on the strength of new "touch DNA" evidence.

Shomberg’s attorney, Clinical Assistant Professor Byron Lichstein, who worked on his case with his students from the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

A full report from the Wisconsin State Journal can be read here.

Submitted by FJRC News on February 25, 2015

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