San Francisco DA Dismisses Charges Against Woman Linked to Crime Through Her Rape Kit
the San Francisco Chronicle that the case was like “fruit of the poisonous tree,” meaning the “evidence that led to the arrest was gathered in a way that violated the defendant’s rights.”as “illegal” to NPR on Thursday and said “we did not know this was happening” until prosecutors began reviewing documents about the investigation that included her arrest.
Marshall told the outlet that prosecutors had figured out that the police department was using databases that included assault victim’s DNA to attempt to identify crime suspects and that the DA’s office was actively working on ending it for gThe woman in question had her DNA collected in 2016 and was apparently connected to a burglary that occurred late last year as part of “a routine search” of the crime lab’s database.
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