Orange County's DA office has maintained a DNA database since 2007 and selectively offered plea deals or misdemeanor dismissals if suspects provided DNA samples (Jordan Smith/The Intercept)

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Orange County's DA office has maintained a DNA database since 2007 and selectively offered plea deals or misdemeanor dismissals if suspects provided DNA samples  —  William Thompson, a professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine, lives in University Hills …

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