Was Ryan Widmer’s murder conviction “a manifest miscarriage of justice?”

In an appeal filed Monday lawyers for Widmer allege that a jury lost its way and that authorities made crucial mistakes, including improperly seizing the bathtub in which his wife, Sarah, 24, had drowned in 2008.

Widmer, 30, of Mason, is serving 15 years to life in prison after a jury convicted him of murder in February.

Since then, Widmer has given two public interviews protesting his innocence and saying he wanted to testify but he did not take the witness stand during any of his three trials based on his lawyers’ advice.

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