4:49 am on Saturday September 3, 2011
| Posted by Ken Hawkins
South Carolina forensics lab backlog reaches 4,500 cases
Still image by Flickr user James Glover
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is in the headlines for a backlog of 4,500 cases.
And most of that forensics backlog is hitting the DNA lab who can handle just some 200 cases a month but has been seeing nearly 350.
WSPA TV out of the upstate has a nice video report (watch it here or up top.)
Blamed for the backlog are budget cuts to the forensics staff.