IP: Judge Rules Fingerprints Cannot Be Called a Match (NYT)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>
> Subject: Judge Rules Fingerprints Cannot Be Called a Match (NYT)
> To: farber () cis upenn edu (David Farber)
>
>
> X-URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/national/11PRIN.html?pagewanted=print
>
> January 11, 2002
>
> Judge Rules Fingerprints Cannot Be Called a Match
>
> By ANDY NEWMAN
>
> A judge has ruled for the first time that fingerprint evidence,
> a virtually unassailable prosecutorial tool for 90 years, does not
> meet the standards set for scientific testimony and that experts
> in the field cannot testify that a suspect's prints definitely
> match those found at a crime scene.
>
> The decision, by a senior federal judge in Philadelphia, comes
> after two years of efforts by defense lawyers to hold fingerprint
> analysis to standards set by the Supreme Court in 1993.
>
> The judge, Louis H. Pollak, found that fingerprint analysis had
> not been subjected to the rigorous testing required under those
> standards.
>
> .....
>
> {what would His Honor say about the polygraph?}

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