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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.
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 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
"Quantitative Research on Friction Ridge Patterns" Solicitation Deadline February 25, 2005
View National Academy of Sciences Presentations from these 2007 meetings
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Interpol European Expert Group on Fingerprint Identification - IEEGFI-1
Interpol European Expert Group on Fingerprint Identification - IEEGFI-2 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 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 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 Shirley McKie Website-follow the erroneous Scottish latent identifications - View Parliamentary inquiry video, READ Transcript of evidence presented This site was last updated on 5/6/08
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