WRAL reports that Durham police announced yesterday that they recently made an arrest in a sexual assault case that occurred more than four years ago. In November 2015, a woman was attacked and sexually assaulted while walking home from work on the Ellerbe Creek Trail. The WRAL report says that investigators were unable to develop strong leads in the case until last fall, when they submitted DNA from the rape kit for testing. That test connected the DNA to Emanuel Dwayne Burch, whose DNA profile was in a national database. The State Crime Lab then connected the DNA in the kit to a new sample taken from Burch. Keep reading for more news. Rape Kit Backlog. Durham police officials and Attorney General Josh Stein said that the arrest in Durham is evidence of the importance of eliminating North Carolina’s rape kit backlog. Currently the Durham Police Department has about 1,400 untested kits and an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 kits remain untested statewide. The WRAL report in the lead notes that the State Crime Lab launched a bar code tracking system in late 2018 the enables law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and victims to keep track of whether kits have been tested. Chapel Hill Court Debt Fund. The News & Observer has a report this week that highlights several initiatives in Chapel Hill that are intended to assist people with the financial burden of coming in contact with the criminal justice system. Chapel Hill recently launched a $20,000 pilot program known as the [...]
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