Need a little help!
You will be given a list of court questions to include qualifying questions as well as questions that would likely be asked by the prosecutor and defense attorney. You will write the answers to these questions, show a synthesis of all the information learned not only in this class but also in previous investigative forensics courses.
For the Defense!
1. While fully rolled fingerprints might be unique, what about latent prints, are they unique?
2. Are there any validation studies as to the uniqueness of latent prints?
3. How reliable is the transfer of information from the 3D surface of the finger to a 2D impression?
4. Whatâs the difference between verification and blind verification?
5. Is there bias in the field? Explain.
6. Are you familiar with the decision in the Rose case? Please Explain.
7. If you are using the scientific method in your work, what are the appropriate hypotheses?
8. Can you define distortion?
9. Dissimilarity?
10. Is that the same as a difference?
11. How many differences have to occur in a print for it to be an exclusion?
12. So if you can explain a difference away you call it a distortion?
13. How do we know you donât take a difference and explain it away to make an identification?
14. Are you familiar with the NAS report?
15.Now in reference to your latents, you marked things you perceived as matching, correct? Can you point out some differences?
16.There are no differences, but right here, these donât look the same.
17.So youâre saying the differences donât matter?
Thanks!
Need a little help!
You will be given a list of court questions to include qualifying questions as well as questions that would likely be asked by the prosecutor and defense attorney. You will write the answers to these questions, show a synthesis of all the information learned not only in this class but also in previous investigative forensics courses.
For the Defense!
1. While fully rolled fingerprints might be unique, what about latent prints, are they unique?
2. Are there any validation studies as to the uniqueness of latent prints?
3. How reliable is the transfer of information from the 3D surface of the finger to a 2D impression?
4. Whatâs the difference between verification and blind verification?
5. Is there bias in the field? Explain.
6. Are you familiar with the decision in the Rose case? Please Explain.
7. If you are using the scientific method in your work, what are the appropriate hypotheses?
8. Can you define distortion?
9. Dissimilarity?
10. Is that the same as a difference?
11. How many differences have to occur in a print for it to be an exclusion?
12. So if you can explain a difference away you call it a distortion?
13. How do we know you donât take a difference and explain it away to make an identification?
14. Are you familiar with the NAS report?
15.Now in reference to your latents, you marked things you perceived as matching, correct? Can you point out some differences?
16.There are no differences, but right here, these donât look the same.
17.So youâre saying the differences donât matter?
Thanks!
