Deposition renews controversy in hotly contested rape kit lawsuit against city
A sample rape kit; more than 12,000 rape kits went untested in Memphis over the decades. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
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Attorneys for rape victims suing the City of Memphis presented new allegations contending that kits were indeed destroyed.
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