There are presumably rape prosecutions that are awaiting the results of these tests . . . . why would the state not process evidence?
Is the kit not tested if the charges are dropped? but why would charges be dropped until the evidence in the kit (or not in the kit) is tested?
this just doesn’t make sense.
Colorado Bureau of Investigations offers to test the collected evidence free of charge.
<< rape prosecutions that are awaiting the results of these tests >> At least investigations matching to known criminals, even some in prison ?
Apparently, the problem is often at the local city or county level ?
They don’t test them if they don’t have a suspect (i.e. the victim actually knew the alleged perp).
The shame is that if they did test them, they might get a hit from the DNA database.
As it is, they don’t even know how many serial rapists are active because they don’t bother to test rapes by unidentified strangers.
How stupid is that?