THU AM Update: DOJ report shows effort to clear sexual assault kit backlog delayed testing in nearly 350 active cases

May 30, 2019

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

From WisPolitics.com ... -- Efforts by the state crime lab to trim a backlog of untested sexual assault kits led to delays in testing DNA in nearly 350 active cases, a new Department of Justice report says. The state began to clear that backlog -- which peaked at over 6,800 untested kits, some of which ...

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