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Man sentenced to life after retrial conviction in 2012 murder of woman found in burning home
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A man has been sentenced to life in prison following his conviction in a retrial in the death of a woman whose body was found inside her burning home in New Jersey almost a dozen years ago. NorthJersey.

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the second time following his conviction in a retrial in the death of a woman whose body was found inside her burning home in New Jersey almost a dozen years ago.

Rochat’s first conviction was overturned in 2022 by an appellate court that ruled that DNA evidence used to connect him to the crime was unreliable. He was tried again this year and convicted in April of murder, arson, felony murder, desecration, hindering and false swearing.

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