11-14-2009 Wisconsin:
by WKOWTV.com
MADISON (WKOW) -- A ruling by a Dane County judge will free a man who served more than six years after being wrongly convicted on sexual assault charges.
Judge Patrick Fiedler ordered 45-year-old Forest Shomberg of Middleton released from prison Friday.
The judge made the decision after reviewing new DNA evidence and new research on faulty eyewitness identification. He overturned his own judgment of conviction in the 2002 case.
Shomberg had been convicted of second-degree sexual assault and sentenced to 12 years.
The victim was a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman who was grabbed from behind and forced into a dark alleyway. The attacker groped her through her pantyhose.
Even touching clothes can leave DNA. New testing showed that four samples of male DNA were found on the pantyhose, but none matched Shomberg. ..Source..
November 14, 2009
WI- Inmate freed after serving 6 years for sex assault he didn't commit
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