DNA technology was irrelevant in light of the state's acknowledgment that it had known since the day of the offenses that they had been committed.[6]
¶ 28 We are mindful of the frustration law enforcement officials, crime victims, and the public experience when prosecutions based on substantial scientific evidence are barred by the passage of time. But it is for the legislature, not this court, to strike the appropriate balance between the interest of an accused in defending against charges at a time when evidence is readily available and the counterveiling interest of the state in prosecuting the criminally culpable. The legislature struck that balance in the version of the statute at issue, applicable to crimes committed between 1978 and 1997, by triggering the limitation period from the datetag to what they call the "real cost." The average real cost to attend UR, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, runs about $34,000 a year.

What a relief. I don’t have to be royalty to send my kid to college, just a senior partner at Goldman Sachs.

In the interest of full disclosure, my wife and I have a fallback built into her job. She works at UR, which charges children of employees the same tuition as that at a State University of New York four-year college.

But that's more of a wing and a prayer than a plan because the child still has to get into the university, which accepts only about a third of applicants.

Even then, if costs rise at the rate they're going, a public