To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
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.
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06/11/2002 8:48:25 AM PDT by
bvw
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To: bvw
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.
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