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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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DNA evidence

TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled a defendant’s sexual assault and criminal trespass convictions should be vacated although DNA evidence linked him to the crimes, because the five-year statute of limitations began to run once the state had both the physical evidence from the crime and the suspect’s DNA.

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