Abstract: Identifying suspects based on impressions of fingers lifted from crime scenes (latent prints) is a routine procedure that is extremely important to forensics and law enforcement agencies.

However, this introduces an undesired interoperability problem between latent examiners and automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS); the features marked by examiners are not always ...

“Palm prints don’t lie” the jury was told by the prosecution and “you can convict on that alone”. In 2021, an expert latent print examiner with over 40 years of experience, who had testified in court ...

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