Lingua Franca | Feature | The Myth of Fingerprints
“Most laypersons regard fingerprint identification as the epitome of science in the service of the lawโindeed, as the model to which all other forensic sciences aspire. And yet this isn’t quite so. Fingerprint identification puts the legal definition of science, recently articulated in the landmark 1993 Supreme Court decision Daubert v. Merrell Dow, to one of its most difficult tests.”