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Drug Use Is Detectable on Your Fingerprints
Uniform Language for Testimony and Reporting for Fingerprints
At the February 2018 American Academy of Forensic Science meeting, DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the Uniform Language for Testimony and Reporting (ULTR) document for fingerprints. The purpose of the document is to standardize language used by Department of Justice fingerprint examiners in their reports and testimony. While the document does not apply …
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AAAS Criticizes Latent Prints Uniform Language Over ‘Expectations’
This week in science history: Unacknowledged, the first forensic fingerprinter dies
Trace Heroin, Cocaine Detected on 13 Percent of Non-Users’ Fingerprints
Defining the Difficulty of Fingerprint Comparisons
DOJ’s Fingerprint Uniform Language is Part of ‘Constant Evolution,’ Says IAI
State v. McPhaul, 256 N.C. App. 303 (2017)
The Court of Appeals applied the new Daubert test for expert testimony and held that trial court abused its discretion by allowing the State’s expert witness’s testimony about fingerprint evidence. A petition for discretionary review was granted by the NC Supreme Court which subsequently found that discretionary review was improvidently granted, leaving intact the Court …
New fingerprint algorithm helps ID bodies found decades ago (IA)
Fingerprint Test That Reveals a Criminal’s Lifestyle to Be Used in UK Court ‘in Months’
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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