Use of rape-kit DNA to probe other crimes
shocks prosecutors
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/17/2022 11:11:29 AM
San Francisco—The San Francisco district attorney's stunning claim that California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes shocked prosecutors nationwide, and advocates said the practice could affect victims' willingness to come forward. District Attorney Chesa Boudin said he became aware of the “opaque practice” last week after prosecutors found a report among hundreds of pages of evidence in the case against a woman recently charged with a felony property crime. The papers referred to a DNA sample collected from the woman during a 2016 rape investigation.(Snip)Boudin said someone at the crime lab told his office the practice was a standard procedure.
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Who needs fingerprints when everything is digital? With data on file, including facial scans, anyone can be found guilty of anything using evidence that can be planted using technology; straight out of dystopian science fiction.