CrimLaw

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Another State Lab in trouble:

In Kentucky the lab has gotten so backed up that private labs have been used, cases have been dismissed without prejudice¹, and a judge has issued a show cause.


¹ For those of you in Virginia a "dismissal without prejudice" is what much of the rest of the country uses instead of a "nol pros" (nolle prosequi). I don't know why other States use English in their courtrooms but I figure it is the same sort of logic which causes them to do strange things like adopt rules of evidence or actually write down in their statutes the elements of crimes. Why in the world would you do such things when you can keep the law obscure and sprinkled with useless Latin? I just don't understand.

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