Challenging fingerprint evidence
Blogs and newspapers are abuzz with a story about a Baltimore County judg'es decision to exclude fingerprint evidence in a death penalty case. The judge conducted a lengthy hearing and then concluded that the fingerprint evidence was "a subjective, untested, unverifiable identification procedure that purports to be infallible." The Baltimore Sun reports on the court's decision in State v. Rose in its article Exclusion of prints could stir legal tests.
The Rose decision is available here.
The 220 page document "A Review of the FBI's Handling of Brandon Mayfield Case" by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Oversight and Review Division (March 2006), which is referenced repeatedly in the Rose case is available online through the Department of Justice.