DNA helps overturn man's sex-assault sentence

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MADISON - A Dane County judge on Friday overturned the conviction of a man who served more than six years in prison for a sexual assault that new DNA evidence indicates he did not commit.

This news article is about a case I worked on with attorney Bryon Lichtein and his students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It involves eyewitness testimony involveing a composite of the perpetrator and lineup we conducted a mockwitness evaluation on.

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