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Your DNA -- Orange County's "Get out of Jail Free" Card

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

The Orange County District Attorney?s Office is now accepting your DNA?and, in exchange, will drop your criminal charges. According to The Los Angeles Times, which reported on this subject in today?s edition, if you are arrested for a nonviolent misdemeanor (which include most DUIs, petty theft, and trespassing) or a low-level drug possession felony and agree to give a DNA sample, the DA won?t file charges. Currently, Orange County has one of the most aggressive programs for collecting DNA samples from convicts in the nation. This, however, is the nation?s first program where samples will be collected by those who have only been arrested for such a crime. What?s interesting is that police and defense attorneys both oppose the program?but for very different reasons...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).