To: Baton who wrote (13254 ) 8/4/2003 3:52:20 PM From: Bucky Katt Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 48461 Ain't that the truth.... The following is another dna tool that is coming down the pike, fast, just like the finger-print dna news I posted last week. Do you that, sooner or later, the XTRN turd will figure out it might be profitable to market their wares to this growing segment? ______________ To effectively eliminate the statute of limitations in aging cases, New York will become the first city in the nation to make rape indictments based solely on a DNA profile, before a suspect is even identified, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday. If an an individual is eventually arrested and linked to the crime by DNA evidence, the suspect will go on trial, regardless of how much time has elapsed, Bloomberg said. Under state law, indictments cannot be made in crimes more than 10 years old. “We're going to get you,” the mayor said at the announcement at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital. “The Police Department and the entire criminal justice system – the district attorneys, the courts, the medical examiner, everybody – we are not going to walk away. We are going to find you and bring you to trial.” Thanks to a $350,000 federal grant for the “John Doe Indictment Project," a dedicated team of prosecutors, scientists and investigators will analyze cases nearing the statute of limitations and file indictments when a DNA profile of the perpetrator can be established. The group will start with more than 600 unsolved rape cases in New York City that are over nine years old. The state keeps a DNA registry of all people convicted of violent crimes or drug charges. Bloomberg said the city has been lobbying state lawmakers for three years to eliminate the statute of limitations, due to the success of using DNA to solve old cases. He said the pleas will continue despite the new program. ny1.com