Bill Text: NJ A2107 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires evidence be retained indefinitely in homicide cases and until defendant's sentence expires in sexual assault cases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A2107 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A2107-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 2107

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 11, 2010

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires evidence be retained indefinitely in homicide cases and until defendant's sentence expires in sexual assault cases.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning evidence in certain criminal cases and supplementing chapter 84A of Title 2A of the New Jersey Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  All law enforcement and prosecuting agencies shall indefinitely preserve any biological evidence that was secured in relation to the investigation or prosecution of a criminal homicide under chapter 11 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes. 

     b.    All law enforcement and prosecuting agencies shall preserve any biological evidence that was secured in relation to the investigation or prosecution of a sexual assault pursuant to N.J.S.2C:14-2 until expiration of the defendant's sentence. 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately. 

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require law enforcement and prosecuting agencies to indefinitely preserve biological evidence that was secured in relation to the investigation or prosecution of a criminal homicide.  The bill also would require these agencies to preserve biological evidence in sexual assault cases until the defendant's sentence has expired. 

     The purpose of the bill is to ensure that biological evidence is available for post conviction DNA testing in homicide and sexual assault cases.

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