Plaintiffs in rape kit lawsuit seek sanctions against City of Memphis
Memphis police have been misstating when DNA tests on rape kits could have been conducted because the state had been compiling genetic profiles in ...
Memphis police have been misstating when DNA tests on rape kits could have been conducted because the state had been compiling genetic profiles in criminal cases starting in 1993, attorneys for a woman accusing the department of failing to maintain and test the kits.The allegations were made in three filings on Wednesday in the lawsuit in Janet Doe v. the City of Memphis, as a judge weighs whether to grand class-action status to the suit, filed eight years ago.The lawsuit asserts the Memphis Police Department failed to properly maintain and test thousands of rape kits since the 1980s, and in some cases disposed of rape kits.