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Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff
Criminal
Rape - DNA Evidence - 1991 Sample
A defendant who was arrested in Stafford County on rape charges in 2003, and whose DNA was obtained at that time, can be prosecuted for a 1991 rape in Fairfax County based on 2001 testing of a sperm sample obtained from an unsolved Fairfax County rape.
Ten years after the Fairfax County rape, after advancements in DNA technology, the investigating officer in that case requested a new test on the victim's PERK specimen. Using newly developed techniques, the forensic scientists extracted the attacker's DNA evidence from the sperm fraction and entered the ...