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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (4270)	8/4/2003 5:44:01 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793677

Here is a quote from an article in the "Bee" on the California budget. Will make any normal person's blood boil. Liberals, of course, are not included. :>) it's really the result of a bag of accounting tricks that would make an Enron executive blush. Even a layman can sense this intuitively by realizing that the budget raises the pay of state employees, expands eligibility for Medi-Cal and provides cost-of-living increases in grants to welfare recipients and the low-income aged and disabled. sacbee.com

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (4270)	8/4/2003 7:19:30 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793677

This sounds to me like indicting fingerprints. I doubt that it is legal. DNA to Be Used to Indict Unknown Suspects in Sex Crimes By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM - NEW YORK TIMES Officials in New York City will review DNA evidence from hundreds of sex crimes committed years ago as part of a systematic effort to obtain indictments ? even though the suspects' identities are not known ? before the 10-year statute of limitations runs out. The first 600 cases for which evidence will be reviewed involve crimes that were committed in 1994, nine years ago. By obtaining indictments based on the DNA evidence before the prosecution clock runs out, law enforcement officials believe that any suspects who are arrested, no matter how far in the future, will face charges. Under the initiative, called the John Doe Indictment Project because unknown suspects will be identified only by their DNA profiles, prosecutors, investigators and scientists will work together to focus on the most serious unsolved sex crimes and lodge charges before the suspects are known and arrested, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said. The project is the first of its kind anywhere, the mayor said, although some individual indictments of unknown suspects based on their DNA profiles have been brought in a dozen cases in Manhattan, which pioneered the practice in the case of the East Side Rapist, and elsewhere in the nation. Under New York State law, the statute requires that a felony prosecution be brought within 10 years of a crime as a means of protecting against fading memories and lost witnesses. "For the first time, prosecutors, police and scientists will join forces and use technology on a citywide scale to employ an innovative legal strategy ? indicting the DNA profiles of unknown sex offenders," Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference with Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, prosecutors and other officials to announce the program. "One very simple goal is behind this strategy: stopping rapists from profiting from the statute of limitations," the mayor said. "By indicting a rapist's DNA profile even before we know who he is, we can stop the clock on the statute of limitations. So on the day that we find out who that rapist is, whether it takes us 10 years, 20 years, 30 years or more, he will have his day in court." A $350,000 grant will pay for the program, financing one prosecutor and one investigator in each of the city's five district attorneys' offices to work solely on reviewing the cases, Mr. Bloomberg said. nytimes.com