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By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
NEW YORK New Yorks governor on Wednesday proposed making the state the first in the country to take mandatory DNA samples from anyone convicted of a crime, including relatively lesser offenses.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, in an annual State of the State speech to the New York legislature, said currently DNA was collected in less than half of crimes on the books.
I will propose a bill requiring the collection of a DNA sample from any person convicted of a felony or Penal Law misdemeanor, said Cuomo, a former federal prosecutor and New York state attorney general.
Cuomo said that applying DNA collection to all criminals would both help law-enforcement bodies fight serious crime and protect against wrongful convictions.
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