6:49 am on Friday September 2, 2011
| Posted by Ken Hawkins
South Carolina forensics lab backlog reaches 4,500 cases
Image by 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.