Backlog mires crime lab

By: - June 8, 2005 9:35 am

RALEIGH — SBI agent Eric R. Hicks spent last week scouring more than half a million files on one computer hard drive for evidence against a man accused of sending porn to kids. Because he always works two cases at once, Hicks also was searching 100,000 files in a child pornography case. Read more…

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Chris Fitzsimon

Chris Fitzsimon, Founder and Executive Director of N.C. Policy Watch, writes the Fitzsimon File, delivers a radio commentary broadcast on WRAL-FM and hosts "News and Views," a weekly radio news magazine that airs on multiple stations across North Carolina. [email protected] 919-861-2066

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