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What Every Law Enforcement Officer Should Know About DNA Evidence

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Chain of Custody: Procedures

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Procedures for establishing a chain of custody of evidence include listing all persons who have had physical possession of the evidence from the time it was recovered at the scene, processed and examined, to the time the evidence was presented in court.

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