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May 29, 2004
Fingerprinting fiasco
Did the FBI's arrest of Portland lawyer Brandon Mayfield based on an erroneous fingerprint match shake your faith in the reliability of fingerprinting? If not, it should, says public defender David Feige. In a Slate piece, Printing Problems -- The inexact science of fingerprint analysis, he argues that the century-old forensic standard is more subjective pseudoscience than irrefutable evidence.
Category: March of progress
Posted by Brian Chin at May 29, 2004 07:42 PM