Fingerprints "not foolproof"


	Fingerprints "not foolproof"

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3-23-2007 9:24 AM

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			FINGERPRINTS 'NOT FOOLPROOF'</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2598"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.express.co.uk/img/4744BB19-5498-47D8-9F16-75247D5826B8" alt="Story Image" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2598"><DIV><P class="introcopy">INNOCENT people have been jailed because experts are misinterpreting fingerprint data, new research suggests.</p> </DIV>
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				<P class="storycopy"><DIV>A study has found that the presence of police might sometimes cause forensic experts to be biased.</DIV></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2598">                                          The findings are so strong that one police force is now looking at ways of training their fingerprint experts to avoid the bias.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2598">                                          Dr Itiel Dror, a senior lecturer at Southampton University, studied the conclusions of six forensic experts with 35 years’ experience.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2598"><DIV>                                          They were asked to examine details of eight fingerprint cases but were given information to try to sway their decision, such as that the prints were of a suspect who had confessed or that the suspect was in custody when the crime was committed.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/2598">                                        The study found that four of the six experts made decisions about someone being guilty or innocent which were completely different to their conclusions five years earlier.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/73217E78-6D37-4352-8B73-67C159891EC6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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