Freed after wrongful conviction.

Will E Worm

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Wis. man freed 23 years after wrongful conviction.

A man sentenced to life in prison for ******* a woman in 1984 had his conviction overturned and was released Friday on a personal recognizance bond after spending 23 years behind bars.

Robert Lee Stinson, 44, of Milwaukee, walked out of the New Lisbon Correctional Institution in street clothes and hugged his ****** and members of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. A judge vacated the sentence after the Project argued that bite-mark analysis and DNA evidence that didn't match evidence from the crime scene, defense attorney Byron Lichstein said.

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Doesn't DNA breakdown after a period of time?

Another case of the police trying to end a case early?


But DNA can break apart over time. The older the sample, the more likely it is that the sequences obtained after separation will be incomplete or small in size. To create larger samples, scientists use a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification.

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