Evidence Preservation in Pennsylvania

State statute requires that upon a petition for post-conviction DNA testing, any remaining biological evidence from that case must be preserved for criminal offenses. Upon receiving the court order, the state must preserve the evidence during the pendency of the proceeding. Effective: 2002.

Pennsylvania’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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