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Fingerprints
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Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis – Latent Fingerprint Examination
The 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis – Latent Fingerprint Examination found that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how unique fingerprint features …
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AAAS: ‘Decades of Overstatement of Latent Print Examiners’ Now Mean No Fingerprint ‘Matches’
Scientists Automate Key Step in Forensic Fingerprint Analysis
At least 100 cases may be affected by fingerprint examiner’s work, Orange-Osceola officials say (FL)
Houston Forensics Streamlines Fingerprints Analysis by Cutting Unnecessary Comparisons
NIST Upgrades Widely Used Database of Molecular ‘Fingerprints’
Your face or fingerprint could soon replace your plane ticket
Personnel file shows extent of Orange County fingerprint examiner’s alleged mistakes (FL)
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Orlando fingerprint examiner suspended, 2,600 cases possibly affected in latest police lab scandal (FL)
More than 2,600 Orlando-area lawyers get letters warning about fingerprint expert
SWGFAST Sufficiency Graph
The Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology (SWGFAST) has a sufficiency graph for fingerprint comparison that may be useful for attorneys to use when discussing fingerprint comparisons with experts. The sufficiency graph reflects the interplay between quality and quantity of minutiae. Minutiae are small details that are used in comparing one …