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Fingerprints
Experts Recommend Measures to Reduce Human Error in Fingerprint Analysis
Statistical Model May Unlock Fingerprint Evidence in Court
Crime scene forensics: How does it work?
BBC News has posted a series of videos explaining how forensic tests are performed in crime labs on their Crime scene forensics: How does it work website. These short videos demonstrate various techniques including fingerprint comparisons, use of ninhydrin and superglue fuming (cyanoacrylate) to locate latent print evidence, firearm and projectile comparisons, and examination of …
Lab’s forensic check failure sparks fingerprints retesting (Chicago)
Crime scene forensics: How does it work?
Miscarriage of justice points to fingerprint flaws
Shirley McKie case: ‘Fingerprints are opinion not fact’ rule probe (Scotland)
Shirley McKie case: The 15-year-long legal battle that put forensic science in the dock (Scotland)
Analysis: Fingerprint experts need to re-examine their certainty – and culture change will take time
Footprints may help defeat criminals
Shoes matching Young crime scene prints never found
Review of the FBI’s Progress Responding to the Recommendations from the Mayfield Case
Five years after issuing recommendations regarding the fingerprint misidentification in the Mayfield case (March 2006), this report by the Office of the Inspector General examines the FBI’s progress implementing the recommendations. …the FBI Laboratory has adopted other measures intended to reduce the risk that an examiner’s ‘gut’ reaction might lead to an incorrect conclusion, including …
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BBC Radio investigative program
Radio program that covers challenges to the reliability of fingerprint evidence, including bias. Includes coverage of the Brandon Mayfield case (from Mar. 10, 2011).