Forensic science has long held that fingerprints are singular identifiers, unique to each finger and each individual. This ...

A Maryland judge?s groundbreaking decision to disallow fingerprint evidence is not spreading like wildfire through the court system ? at least according to a Baltimore County ruling Wednesday. Circuit ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Prosecutors in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial today showed the jury fingerprints they said were left by Jackson and his accuser on sexually explicit magazines seized ...

When a man was found dead in his vehicle last month in La Plata Canyon, investigators used a tried-and-true method to identify him: fingerprinting. Authorities had good reason to believe they knew the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In 2016, a jury convicted Audrey Cannon of burglary after police said she broke into a house in northeast Portland. Forensic investigators with the Portland Police Bureau linked ...

BOSTON -- No two fingerprints are exactly alike. For nearly a century, that widely accepted belief has been enough for police, juries and the general public to feel confident that a fingerprint match ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Ninety-one years after fingerprint evidence was first presented in an American courtroom, its reputation as an infallible forensic tool is under attack in a court challenge that could ...

On this day, March 27, 1905, fingerprint evidence is used for the first time to solve a murder case. The bludgeoned bodies of London shopkeepers Thomas and Ann Farrow were found by a worker. Scotland ...

KILLEEN, Texas (FOX 44) – Central Texas College Police Academy cadets in Delta Class took part in hands-on fingerprinting ...

"Discrepancies" with fingerprint evidence in at least eight cases have surfaced in an ongoing review of years of criminal cases in Tempe. All have been reassigned to detectives, and county prosecutors ...

How do lawyers view forensic evidence? And how do individuals who make up juries view forensic evidence? Some lawyers complain of a CSI effect, in which jurors expect that every case should involve ...