
148 P.3d 84 (2006)
Olin Gene TAYLOR, Petitioner,
v.
Hon. Michael CRUIKSHANK, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of Pima, Respondent, and
The State of Arizona, Real Party in Interest.
John Adrian Johnson, Petitioner,
v.
Hon. Gus Aragon, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of Pima, Respondent, and
The State of Arizona, Real Party in Interest.
Nos. 2 CA-SA 2006-0067, 2 CA-SA 2006-0078.
Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 2, Department B.
November 30, 2006.
*85 Robert J. Hooker, Pima County Public Defender By Walter Palser, Tucson, Attorneys for Petitioner Taylor.
Robert J. Hooker, Pima County Public Defender By Chiko F. Makanjuola-Oyolu, Tucson, Attorneys for Petitioner Johnson.
Barbara LaWall, Pima County Attorney By Taren M. Ellis and Shawn Jensvold, Tucson, Attorneys for Real Partyof, and the TPD Crime Laboratory's connection to, CODIS, the national database of DNA profiles of convicted offenders. At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge Cruikshank denied the defense motion, finding the state could not reasonably have matched Taylor's DNA profile to the DNA profile of the semen sample obtained from R. before May 2000. Accordingly, the respondent concluded, the indictment filed in February 2006, within seven years of May 2000, was timely.

Johnson Factual and Procedural Background
¶ 5 On April 26, 1994, J. reported to TPD that she had been sexually assaulted. A semen sample obtained from J. was tested on June 7, 1994. The City-County Crime Laboratory, now the TPD Crime Laboratory, analyzed one marker of the DNA in the sample on October 2, 1998, to see