Suspect Identities“No two fingerprints are alike,” or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. |
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... jury acquitted another defendant who had fingerprint evi- dence against him . Such evidence was still unfamiliar enough that the jury was hesitant to use it as a basis for conviction . The frustrated mag- istrate could do little more ...
... jury , petitioned the court to allow one of its expert witnesses , the Los Angeles fingerprint examiner E. N. ... jury con- victed Moon of burglary . On appeal , Moon argued that the judge should not have allowed this demonstration . The ...
... jury convicted Loomis anyway , but the Pennsylvania Su- preme Court ordered a new trial on the grounds that the trial judge's in- structions to the jury had been biased against the defendant . By the time of Loomis's second trial the ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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