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MADISON - Gov. Jim Doyle signed a bill Friday allowing judges to order former convicts to surrender DNA samples, giving prison officials more legal muscle as they try to find more than 10,000 offenders who finished their sentences without submitting the tell- tale genetic identifier.
State officials learned of the missing samples last fall after detectives in a serial rape case realized their prime suspect's DNA wasn't in the state's database - even though he should have given a sample during a prison stay. An Associated Press review revealed Wisconsin's problems weren't unique - state DNA databases across the country are missing tens of thousands of offenders' samples.See the full content of this document
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Doyle Signs Bill for Dna Testing
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