Posted: 2009.11.16
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.
