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	<title>IAPE Evidence Blog &#187; Backlog</title>
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		<title>DNA EVIDENCE SITS FOR MONTHS;</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/01/dna-evidence-sits-for-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hartford Courant (Connecticut)
BYLINE: DAVE ALTIMARI and MATTHEW KAUFFMAN, daltimari@courant.com
New Haven, CT
AS CRIME LAB STRUGGLES WITH BACKLOG, STATE USES
FEDERAL FUNDS IN EFFORT TO CATCH UP
For nearly two years, the DNA samples connecting Ronald Brown to the rape of a teenage girl sat in the state police forensic laboratory while the convicted murderer roamed the streets of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. crime lab still lags in DNA testing</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2009/11/mass-crime-lab-still-lags-in-dna-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/globe
Boston, MA
The Massachusetts State Police crime laboratory still lags in testing DNA samples connected to crimes, despite a critical report two years ago that led to the firing of some high-ranking lab employees.
The lab came under fire when it was revealed that more than 16,000 DNA samples had not been analyzed. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DNA backlog;</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2009/10/the-dna-backlog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
BYLINE: GLENN SMITH, The Post and Courier
Columbia, SC
SLED crime lab unable to keep up with demand
The robber moved through York County like a one-man crime wave, shooting four people in a string of business holdups. Investigators were stumped. All they had to go on was a pen the bandit had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPD lab still has vast DNA backlog Evidence from more than 1,000 active rape cases is gathering dust despite scandal CRIME LAB:</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2009/10/hpd-lab-still-has-vast-dna-backlog-evidence-from-more-than-1000-active-rape-cases-is-gathering-dust-despite-scandal-crime-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Houston Chronicle
BYLINE: By JAMES PINKERTON, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Houston, TX
Backlog stirs calls for a new facility
Seven years after the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal first broke, city officials acknowledged this week that nearly 4,000 rape kits and other crime evidence remain untested for DNA.
According to HPD Crime Lab Director Irma Rios, that untested evidence stored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA backlog delays cause frustration, concerns:</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2009/09/dna-backlog-delays-cause-frustration-concerns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.dailycomet.com
By Raymond Legendre, Staff Writer
Link to Article (1 photo)
Baton Rouge. LA
Detective Aaron Barnes demonstrates how Thibodaux Police lift fingerprints Friday inside a lab at the Thibodaux Police Station.
THIBODAUX — They are a tiny collection of human cells invisible to the naked eye.
And they helped revolutionize the way America’s criminal-justice system identifies guilt and innocence.
But the [...]]]></description>
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