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expedition32yesterday at 3:33 AM2 repliesview on HN

This is why crimes used to have prosecution time limits. Nobody expected eye witness accounts to surface after 40 years. But DNA is eternal.


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DiscourseFanyesterday at 3:39 AM

DNA is not eternal, but neither is anyone's memory trustworthy for that long.

cucumber3732842yesterday at 9:58 AM

Prosecution time limits and those pesky rights people have is why so much stuff that would've been simple misdemeanors 70+yr ago is now "administrative" and "civil" law.