Posted: 2009.01.12
A Milwaukee man serving a life term in the murder of a South
Milwaukee runaway was released from prison on January 8, 2009,
after tests showed DNA found on the victim matched unknown DNA
discovered on two other slaying victims in Milwaukee.
Chaunte Ott's exoneration was the culmination of work dating back
to 2000 by law students and their supervising attorneys at the
Wisconsin Innocence Project, a clinical program of the University
of Wisconsin Law School. Ott is the 11th individual released from
prison after investigative and advocacy work by the Project.
To read about the case and the work of UW law School Clinical
Professor John Pray and students Matt Wuest and Yesha Sutaria in a
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, see http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/37285314.html.
New DNA Evidence Leads to Wisconsin Innocence Project's 11th Exoneration
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