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#156 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Fingerprint Evidence

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:34:29
Publish Date: 2020-09-09 04:44:00
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Josh Dubin discusses Fingerprint Evidence with Mary Moriarty, Chief Public Defender of Hennepin County in Minnesota

Contrary to what pop culture has ingrained in the American conscience, matching known fingerprints of a suspect to prints left at the scene of a crime is not an exact science. It’s entirely subjective.

So how did fingerprints become so widely accepted and thought of as the gold standard, as fool proof evidence?

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