Evidence Preservation in Arizona

State statute requires the automatic preservation of all biological evidence related to homicide or felony sexual offenses for the length of an individual’s incarceration, or until the completion of their supervised release. Effective 2009.

Arizona’s statute does NOT meet the best practices standards outlined by the NIST Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation.

Read the statute.

 

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