[bvw]

That's been discussed here on FR in recent weeks. The main problem is that forensics only collects partial prints and poor quality ones sometimes -- some subjectivity enters in how those partials are coded, and sometimes a coding errors occur, in addition to chain of custody, recording keeping issues. A related problem is that courts and people tend to take fingerprints and fringerprint experts as gospel without continual testing and extrenal certification -- lack of rigor has caused the system to sag.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Over here too.

[Freedom2specul8]

It never dawned on me that prints that don't match can actually be misinterpreted. ????? How hard is it to see that ''curls, curves and lines" don't match.