As thousands of convicts in Washington were getting away without a critical step in their post-conviction legal process, Attorney General Bob Ferguson says his office set out to change that.
For years, thousands of convicts in Washington were getting away without a critical step in their post-conviction legal process. Attorney General Bob Ferguson says his office set out to change that.Washington law requires people convicted of violent crimes and sex offenses to submit their DNA to a national database that can be accessed by law enforcement everywhere.
Ferguson set out to make that change five years ago, and since then, they've collected more than 2,600 samples, which have led to 97 matches to other crimes."These are folks who have been convicted of, for example, sex crimes, violent felonies, these are serious offenses. And so we've been painstakingly going through the information to determine who owes this DNA and that's a labor intensive process.
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