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Additional Thoughts on Maryland v. Rose (Fingerprints)

Posted on October 26, 2007
Having just read the opinion in Maryland v. Rose, my initial reaction is an odd mixture of yawns and gasps. On the unreliability of fingerprints, the opinion is in many ways completely unremarkable. The arguments offered against fingerprints have now...

And more on Fingerprints....

Posted on October 26, 2007
Here's a follow-up story on Judge Souder's exclusion of fingerprints for not being based on "a reliable factual foundation." See Here. There are some insightful comments from Sandy Zabell and some not-terribly-insightful comments from Thomas P. Mauriello, an adjunct professor...

Exclusion of Fingerprint Evidence

Posted on October 25, 2007
A Maryland trial court excluded the State's proffer of partial latent fingerprint evidence last Friday. The judge based her ruling on the State's failure to demonstrate that the technology produced valid results. Although the court used the Frye test, the...

Wall Street Journal law blog blooper on court size

Posted on July 16, 2007
The author of the Wall Street Journal law blog brought up an old hobby horse -- splitting the Ninth Circuit. Ashby Jones, reporting on some calculations (of dubious applicability) in a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed piece by law professor...

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Bush Science

Posted on July 11, 2007
Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona told a congressional committee that the Bush administration pressured him to change, modify, or omit information regarding public health matters based on political considerations. See Here. Nothing new, perhaps, but worth adding to the list...

The "prosecutor's fallacy" in the Netherlands

Posted on May 17, 2007
A New York Times blog by Mark Buchanan on "The Prosecutor's Fallacy" provides a report on a conviction involving flawed statistical evidence. (The author also described the case in January in Nature. A more detailed analysis is at Richard Gill's...

The Meaning of Error

Posted on April 24, 2007
I am sitting at a meeting of a National Academy of Science Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community. Forensic scientists addressing the committee have said that it is not a "false positive" or not an "error"...

Predicting Dangerousness and Flipping Coins

Posted on April 20, 2007
On April 20, NPR's Morning Edition broadcast an interview with Phillip Merideth, "a forensic psychiatrist and the chief medical office for Brentwood Behavioral Healthcare in Mississippi [and] a lawyer who teaches about mental health and the law." According to Dr...

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