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Limiting Cases Submitted

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Limiting Cases Submitted

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Some laboratories may determine that the best use of resources is to limit analyses to only the most serious cases, thus implementing a case acceptance policy that, for example, only allows for submission of murder and sexual assault cases.

Other laboratories may be more inclusive and exclude only certain crimes or types of evidence such as DNA analysis requested on drug packaging.

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