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L.A. Sheriff's dept. halts DNA testing for rape cases

By Jonathan Hayter

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The L.A. Times reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has suspended its faltering effort to analyze DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases, due to budget and staffing shortfalls.

Sheriff's Department officials said they expected to receive federal grant money next month, and more funds in the fall, that would allow them to continue testing for four or five months. After that, however, the department will have to rely on an uncertain stream of state funding, officials said.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).

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