This handout describes issues that attorneys should lookout for in cases involving fingerprint or latent print evidence.
Fingerprints
Sample Lab Report
The NC State Crime Lab has provided a mock lab report so that attorneys can see the format and contents of a lab report from their lab. Notes about the examination in this case are on pp. 24-26 of 29 in this report. No images are included in this sample, but should be requested in …
Fingerprint Discovery Checklist
Items to request in discovery. A Word document will be downloaded to your download folder when you click here.
Forensic Expert Evidence Caselaw Database
In this database, the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law has assembled reported decisions, chiefly by appellate courts, that discuss the admissibility of expert testimony regarding firearms, fingerprint, and shoeprint evidence. This database digests reported judicial rulings regarding that type of proffered expert testimony.
New Database Documents a Century of Court Decisions on Forensic Expert Evidence Testimony
This week, the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law announced the launch of a new public resource: the Forensic Expert Evidence Database, a searchable collection of court decisions addressing when and how forensic expert testimony is admitted in criminal cases. The database brings together reported decisions from courts across all fifty states …
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2025 Forensic Trial Litigation CLE at Duke Law
Pre-recorded lectures: 2 hrs February 7: 2 pm to 5 pm (2.5 hrs.) February 8: 9 am to 12 pm, 2 pm to 5 pm (5 hrs.) Total CLE Hours: 2 hrs prerecorded + 7.5 hrs in person = 9.5 hrs(Each three hour in-person session will include two 15 min. breaks) Forensic evidence, from DNA …
Students Enlist Campus to Help Build Shoe Print Database
State v. Holder, 295 N.C. App. 439 (2024) (unpub)
A police officer employed a widely accepted technique to examine fingerprints and sufficiently explained his how he reached his conclusions or applied the method to the facts.
Scientists are fixing flawed forensics that can lead to wrongful convictions
Inconclusive Decisions and Error Rates in Forensic Science
Recorded CSAFE webinar available on demand
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Research Into Holograms Could Improve Forensic Fingerprint Analysis
Are fingerprints unique? Not really, AI-based study finds
AI disproves differences between same-hand fingerprints
2024 Forensic Trial Litigation CLE at Duke Law
Pre-recorded lectures: 2 hrs February 2: 2 pm to 5 pm (2.5 hrs.) February 3: 9 am to 12 pm, 2 pm to 5 pm (5 hrs.) Total CLE Hours: 2 hrs prerecorded + 7.5 hrs in person = 9.5 hrs(Each three hour in-person session will include two 15 min. breaks) Forensic evidence, from DNA to fingerprints …