This past November, the New York Court of Appeals decided People v. Brown, a decision of considerable importance for sex crime prosecutions in our state.1

In August 1993, a man in his mid-30s sodomized a 9-year-old girl on the rooftop of her apartment building in Queens. After the incident, the girl was taken to the local hospital, where a rape kit was prepared. Nine years later (a delay caused by lack of funding), the rape kit was sent to Bode Technology, one of three private laboratories that do work for the City’s Medical Examiner’s Office.

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