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people need go on over to POPVOX.com and oppose this law because there is so many wrongly convicted people on our list and the burden of proof does not apply to sex offenses which is ridiculous.
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/114/hr4346
H.R. 4346 To require the Governor of each State that receives a grant under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to certify to the Attorney General that under the laws of that State there is no statute of limitations for any offense under the laws of that State related to sexual assault, and for other purposes.
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/114/hr4346
H.R. 4346 To require the Governor of each State that receives a grant under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to certify to the Attorney General that under the laws of that State there is no statute of limitations for any offense under the laws of that State related to sexual assault, and for other purposes.
http://tinyurl.com/o9gyjs4
Here is also a clickable map, which will not only tell you the statute of limitations but other info about sex crimes for each specific state------
http://tinyurl.com/hjak8bg
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In the process more people might be exonerated. Unfortunately that number might pale beside all the convictions which LE could publicize as solved cold cases files. It seems incredible but Prosecutors and labs are literally running out of places to store DNA rape kits. Until now the excuse for not spending money to do the tests in some states has been the statute of limitations (and their justification for throwing critical evidence away.)
Of course, the public really just expects to get convictions on people who are on parole or are already in prison on some other conviction. A lot of those untested rape kits weren't bothered with not only because it cost money to test (which came out of their budgets) but because the DA preferred malleable eyewitness testimony and his own control over a jury
Can you imagine the who-ha if they just dumped all those rape kits as too old/too degraded to be tested? (LE secretly dumps them now in some cases) Without the rape kits and DNA there would be no Innocence Project/ exonerations and any one who wanted to raise post conviction issues re with-holding of evidence in their own case would certainly come up empty handed. More and more "degraded" rape kits will then just be left on the evidence list but 'mislaid.' (aka. thrown in the waste bin out behind the courthouse)
I for one am very much in favor of preserving evidence and testing all that back log of rape kits. Let the chips fall where they may. Clear it all out above board. Even one exoneration would mean one fewer person sitting life out in jail.