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SUFFICIENCY FOR CONCLUSIONS The scientific measure of sufficiency for individualization of friction ridge impressions is not a strict number of Galton characters in agreement, nor a belief in the transference of biological uniqueness of level 3 detail. Sufficiency is the amount of detail present in each unknown impression, and how this amount of detail compares to the closest non-match ever found with concurrent equal levels of detail.
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With issuance of the 1973 IAI resolution which stated, "That no valid basis exists at this time for requiring that a pre-determined number.........", the standardization committee strongly recommended a federally funded study of fingerprints. Twenty-seven years later a solicitation for such a study was issued. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE (N I J) COMMISSIONS SCIENTIFIC STUDY The grant funding for this solicitation was recalled and the solicitation was rewritten to include all pattern evidence sciences. This does not infer that friction ridge individualization validation is not needed. The
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has identified the need for
validation of
View the solicitation Open Adobe PDF View the N I J solicitation clarification letter dated June 20, 2000
The IAI removes restrictions on probabilistic friction ridge conclusions with the passage of Resolution 2010-18 on July 16, 2010
NIJ awards Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison study November 30, 2009 The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "standard for "sufficiency" of information available in friction ridge (fingerprint) patterns.
A statistical modeling approach to fingerprint identification that defines duplication likelihood for amounts of correspondingridge formations in two fingerprint impressions based on relevant fingerprint population, by Henry Templeman
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE (N I J) COMMISSIONS NEW SCIENTIFIC STUDY - - - - -DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION FEBRUARY 25, 2005 "Quantitative Research on Friction Ridge Patterns" Solicitation Deadline February 25, 2005
IDENTIFYING THE NEEDS OF THE FORENSIC SCIENCES COMMUNITY View National Academy of Sciences Presentations from these 2007 meetings 2/18/09 NAS releases report "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward Read The Final NAS Report (August 2009) Read the NAS Congressional Testimony (March 18 2009) A complete resource for NAS report, Congressional hearings, and the resulting Presidential Commission of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) -------------------------------- Forensic Science For The 21st Century - The National Academy of Sciences Report and Beyond April 3-4, 2009 Conference - Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology-Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law-Arizona State University Tempe, Ariz.
What is Scientific Law, Hypotheses, and Theory?
The fingerprint "Source Book" March 2011 (download complete book) See Impression and Pattern Evidence Webpage
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Interpol European Expert Group on Fingerprint Identification - IEEGFI-1
Interpol European Expert Group on Fingerprint Identification - IEEGFI-2 National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-June 2011 Conference - Panel Discussion "Human Factors in Latent Print Examination" - Video Presentation - Transcript United States of America v. Byron Mitchell In the United States Court of Appeals 3rd district- Decision argued 9/9/03 - filed 4/29/04
Brandon Mayfield Error Articles on the erroneous individualization in the Madrid bombing case Special report on the erroneous fingerprint individualization in the Madrid train bombing case In response to the misidentification of a latent print: FBI-"Review of the Scientific Basis for Friction Ridge Comparisons as a Means of Identification: Committee Findings and Recommendations Office Of Inspector General - A Review of the FBI's Handling of the Brandon Mayfield Case (Unclassified Executive Summary), Special Report, January 2006 (9mb pdf) Web Viewable (900kb) FBI response Office of Inspector General - Final full Unclassified Report - A Review of the FBI's Handling of the Brandon Mayfield Case - Download selected chapters from a list View Mayfield, Daoud, and the latent images contained in the Final OIG Report "The State of The FBI Laboratory's Latent Print Operation - Four Years After Madrid" - Presentation from the 2008 IAI Conference - Download the PowerPoint Oregon District Court Judge Ann Aiken held in Brandon Mayfield, et al. v. the United States of America, that two sections of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amended under the Patriot Act are unconstitutional A Review of the FBI's Progress in Responding to the Recommendation in the OIG Report on the Brandon Mayfield Case - June 2011
Shirley McKie Error Shirley McKie Website-follow the erroneous Scottish latent identifications - View Parliamentary inquiry video, READ Transcript of evidence presented --- Read the 2009 Scottish Public Inquiry transcripts ----December 2011 Inquiry Report Released This site was last updated on 05/04/12
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