That's the real problem with WCCA. Many cases are not posted, and the public site is rarely updated. Juveniles are excluded from CCA and such, but DNA samples from crime scenes could be part of CODIS, as they don't have a suspect at that time. So in a roundabout way, youths are not excluded. The whole CSI thing: I haven't seen an entire episode, but I'm sure it's a complete waste of time. I have seen a great series called the first 48, but I don't make it a habit to watch that stuff. Imagine working at GM for 10 hours and watching a show about working on an assembly line over dinner.

no it didn't take 2 years for the DNA results.
he was picked up for some other crime and his DNA was taken and it matched the DNA on file for this crime that happened 2 years ago.

Thanks for the information about the CODIS, pigbrain. I guess I remember when the legislation was debated, but it doesn't get that many headlines. ;-)

As for the delay, another explanation could be that much of his record is juvenile. (I'm assuming that's one reason he doesn't have any citations in WCCA. Though there's always a FIRST felony for somoene.) Are juvie offenders included in CODIS?

Wisconsin is a far cry from CSI Miami, where they take the DNA to the lab and have a result and match in 20 minutes :)

See earlier post about John Doe warrant. The CODIS, which is the Combined DNA Index System operated by the FBI, has DNA samples of all persons imprisoned and new arrestees as well as samples from crime scenes where they found no suspect, anywhere in the country, not just WI. When this guy was booked for an unrelated crime and run through the database, the CODIS linked him to the sample from the Shell station. Then WI placed his name on said John Doe warrant for arrest and charged him. Not CSI stuff at all, just a modern database of DNA samples and a legal way to keep a case open for 6 years with no named suspect, just good old police work.

Meyerson has no Wisconsin record per WCCA, so his DNA probably was not on file. It might have taken that long to find an out-of-state sample to match with. They may even have taken the extra step of getting a warrant to get a new sample from him, and the results from that test are only now available.

DNA testing isn't like on CSI.

what a schmuk, shoot somebody 3 times in the stomach with a bb gun? Lock him up with some real criminals.

More than likely, he was just picked up for something unrelated to this crime, where as part of modern booking procedures, he gave a DNA sample to be run through national database of DNA collected from crime scenes with no suspects. His DNA matched the sample from the crime scene and was then charged with that crime also. This is called a John Doe warrant.

He could have put someones eye out with that BB gun...........

It took 2 years for the DNA results??

Did he volunteer his DNA to compare that left at the crime scene I wonder ?