Saturday, March 11, 2006

DOJ Releases OIG Report on the Brandon Mayfield Case

Courtesy of TalkLeft, we learn that the Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice has released its report (82-meg PDF) on the Brandon Mayfield fingerprint misidentification fiasco. Among the report's conclusions: investigators were so keen to get their man that methodological rigor went by the wayside, and big red forensic flags were simply ignored or rationalized away.

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Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.