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Fingerprints, Barred in a Maryland State Proseuction, Allowed in Federal Case

By Steve Hall

"Fingerprints are back in as federal judge finds them reliable," is the title of Caryn Tamber's report in Daily Record of Maryland.Prosecutors say they are not surprised but were relieved that a federal judge will allow fingerprint evidence against an accused killer. The fingerprints are admissible to link Brian Keith Rose to a 2006 attempted carjacking at Security Square Mall that ended in the death of Warren T. Fleming, Judge Catherine C. Blake ruled in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Susan Souder made waves nationwide in 2007 when she ruled in the same case that a common technique for fingerprint analysis was not reliable enough to use at trial. Following her decision, the Baltimore County State?s Attorney dropped the charges against Rose and the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).