Cole's comprehensive first book investigates the tangled intersections of scientific identification and law enforcement, entering similar territory as Colin Beavan's Fingerprints (see review above), ...
For more than a century, the police have relied on fingerprint evidence to catch and convict criminals. But some recent court cases have challenged the authority of fingerprint experts, and questioned ...
A federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled that fingerprint evidence is unreliable, and refused to hear testimony from fingerprint experts in a death penalty case. U.S. District Judge Louis H. Pollak ...
nmahmai copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. A revolution in forensic science? -- Interlude A : DNA profiling techniques -- A techno-legal controversy -- Interlude B : Admissibility, ...
Matching fingerprints involves judgment, skill and training and is extraordinarily reliable when done properly, its proponents say. Critics charge that fingerprinting ...
When a man was found dead in his vehicle last month in La Plata Canyon, investigators used a tried-and-true method to identify him: fingerprinting. Authorities had good reason to believe they knew the ...
On this day, March 27, 1905, fingerprint evidence is used for the first time to solve a murder case. The bludgeoned bodies of London shopkeepers Thomas and Ann Farrow were found by a worker. Scotland ...