CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Criminal
............Fingerprints
4 Cards On This Topic:

Testimony re CAL-ID fingerprint matching computer database did not implicate Kelly concerns where reliability of the system apparent at trial and jury could make its own comparisons between latent prints at crime scene and D's prints.

As charges dismissed and D found factually innocent, trial court erred by ordering her fingerprints, obtained at the time of arrest, be retained rather than destroyed per PC 851.8.

Qualification for testimony re fingerprint comparison may be based solely upon training and experience, with no particular degree required.

Cases discussing issues related to fingerprint evidence.