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Federal CDs facing latent print examiner testimony claiming individualization.

Daubert Challenge — Latent Fingerprint Individualization

FRE 702 motion + cross-exam bank to challenge latent fingerprint testimony. PCAST 2016 §5.2 grounded.

Concede foundational validity (per PCAST), then aim the cross-exam at PCAST's 1-in-18 false-positive rate — the number jurors must hear before they take the examiner's 'match' as certainty.

“false positives may occur as often as 1 in 18 cases.”

PCAST, Forensic Science in Criminal Courts (2016) — latent fingerprint analysis, citing the Miami-Dade Police Department Forensic Services Bureau study(opens in new tab)
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What this template gives you that the discipline-specific treatise does not.
  1. 01.

    PCAST classified latent prints as foundationally valid BUT with a substantial false-positive rate — most defense motions miss the second clause.

  2. 02.

    FBI's 2011 black-box study reported 1-in-306; the more conservative Miami-Dade 2014 study reported 1-in-18.

  3. 03.

    Examiners are still trained to claim 'individualization to the exclusion of all others' — a phrasing PCAST explicitly rejected.

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