The agency now takes only felony offenders up to the age of 19.
McMillan's lawyer has said that the prosecution made no offer that took a felony conviction off the table.
Representatives Joseph Crowley of New York and Mary Bono Mack of California are now sponsoring legislation that would make it a felony to take a girl out of the country to have the procedure, punishing violators with fines and a five-year prison term.
It is now a felony to take more photos of birds like this, wading through oil that broken booms have trapped in rookeries.
His staff says the felony conviction rate has stood at 95percentt or higher since 1983, But Ms. Rice calls the 98percentt statistic artificial, saying that Mr. Dillon's office offered plea bargains in 72percentt of violent felony cases and took only 3percentt of felony indictments to trial.
(Later, Mr. Letterman called Mr. Leno a felon, then corrected himself to say "a felony took place").
Those accused of fraudulently taking tests face felony charges of scheming to defraud, as well as misdemeanor charges of falsifying business records and criminal impersonation.
The felony took place at a fund-raising event on March 6, when, according to the complaint, he restrained a woman identified as Jane Doe 1 against her will, apparently using the "Filner headlock," which became a legacy of this episode.
Under current state laws, a DNA sample is taken after every felony conviction, but after only 35 types of misdemeanor convictions, said Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, the chief of the office's trial division.
Charles J. Hynes, who is running for a seventh term as Brooklyn district attorney, has a long record to scrutinize, and his opponent in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, Kenneth P. Thompson, has seized on one statistic that has barely improved since Mr. Hynes took office: his felony conviction rate.
