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The Case of Junk Science - Fingerprint Evidence
📻 Episode #156
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 09, 2020
About This Episode
Josh Dubin discusses Fingerprint Evidence with Mary Moriarty, Chief Public Defender of Hennepin County in Minnesota
The Case
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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00:03:47“Speaker 1: portion of his body. You used to make fun of Speaker 1: Alvin for that fan. You were always telling him just Speaker 1: to invest in a damn ac unit. Already the whole Speaker 1: thing seems so surreal. And now the office are pointing Speaker 1: at the fan in the picture and they say, you”
00:16:17“Speaker 3: age old question that public defenders get asked is how Speaker 3: can you represent those people? And it's very easy because Speaker 3: those people are our brothers, our dads, our sisters, our cousins. Speaker 3: And you look at what those clients have been through, Speaker 3: and so many of them have a history of trauma,”
00:27:49“Speaker 1: should have been an explosion in the criminal justice system Speaker 1: in the courts, and it just wasn't. And that's I guess, Speaker 1: a different issue altogether. We have to keep pushing in Speaker 1: that regard. But you are still trying to push and Speaker 1: challenge the admissibility of fingerprints in the criminal justice system,”
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