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The backlog of sexual assault kits in North Carolina has been cleared, Attorney General Josh Stein announced Tuesday in front of more than 100 people gathered at the Wake Tech Public Safety ...
Aug. 13—More than half the sexual assault examinations submitted to the state Department of Public Safety's Forensic Laboratory Bureau since 2023 are still awaiting analysis as the facility ...
A surprise email about DNA evidence revives a Michigan cold case. ... the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative awarded the first in a series of grants to help state and local agencies address the backlog.
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, has also conducted research into the continued development of the DNA forensic evidence backlog. In their research, the NIJ tracked the processing of the two main types of DNA evidence: "casework" DNA and "convicted offender and arrestee" DNA. [17]
The Federal Rules of Evidence states rules regarding a piece of evidence's relevancy and whether or not it is admissible. [7] F.R.E. 402 states relevant evidence is admissible unless otherwise excluded by: "The U.S. Constitution, a federal statute, the Federal Rules of Evidence, or other rules proscribed by the Supreme Court."
The DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (H.R. 4640, 42 U.S.C. 14135 et seq.) is a United States Act of Congress that primarily allows US states to carry out DNA analyses for use in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System and to collect and analyse DNA samples.
The Kentucky State Police Laboratory has a debilitating evidence testing backlog that leaves a negative trickle down affect in the state’s criminal justice system by causing delays that affect ...
Backlog (academic journals), the phenomenon of a number of accepted papers waiting a significant time to be published; Backlog of unexamined patent applications, all patent applications that have been filed and still remain to be examined; An argument to Berkeley sockets "listen" function representing the number of pending connections