These kits are all part of ongoing investigations. The delay of processing could mean further delays in cases being solved. found 284 rape kits have gone beyond that deadline.
“All sexual assault kits must be submitted to crime labs, and that’s pretty much national standard, and standard here in Texas, so you start to see an increase in sexual assault cases coming in," he said. "For several years, the story of unsubmitted sexual assault kits continually came down to, 'investigators shouldn’t be making decisions about what needs to be analyzed, it should all go to the laboratory,'" Dym said. "This then causes a cascade effect of, ‘We’re not making decisions of what needs to be analyzed, it all needs to go to the lab.'”
“DNA, many times, is a victim of it’s own success because this discipline isn’t just working sexual assaults," Dym said. "They’re working homicides, they’re working assaults, they’re working burglaries, robberies, car jackings - so you have not just sexual assault cases, but a massive influx of evidence where DNA evidence is now critical to solving these cases."
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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