The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday solidified the statute of limitations in some cases that hinge on DNA, saying the five-year clock starts when investigators possess a sample from a suspect – not when they actually match it to the suspect. The 5-0 decision wipes out the convictions of a Camden County man, Bradley C. Thompson, who was found guilty at trial in 2018 of criminal sexual contact and burglary, for a crime that occurred in 2001. Authorities indicted him in 2017, after connecting his DNA to the crime the year before. The statute of limitations in New Jersey is five years for mos…
