Forensic science braces for change
FBI laboratory chief is optimistic despite severe criticism and challenges ahead.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100722/ ... 0.369.html
Nature, article on Forensics
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Re: Nature, article on Forensics
I am confused
'But Thomas Bohan, director of Portland, Maine–based consultants MTC Forensics and a past president of the AAFS, disagrees. The people who implement the techniques have neither the time nor, very often, the objectivity to be useful in validation, Bohan says. "The FBI fingerprint division for years has asserted that fingerprint identification has been validated by a hundred years of jury trials. They just don't get it," he says. "The best model for the validation work is DNA, which was delivered full-blown to the forensic labs after years of validation in university laboratories."
Bono feels that forensic scientists must bear some responsibility for not always getting their message across to judge and jury. "The science is good, but the ability of a scientist to operate in an arena like the courtroom is sorely lacking," he says.'
Fingerprint identification was validated by scientist for years before being delivered to the police also. Does the second paragraph here relate to the on proceeding paragraph, if so then;
'fingerprint identification has been validated by a hundred years of jury trials'
Either fingerprint officers have the ability in the court or DNA has a way to go in court room battles.
'But Thomas Bohan, director of Portland, Maine–based consultants MTC Forensics and a past president of the AAFS, disagrees. The people who implement the techniques have neither the time nor, very often, the objectivity to be useful in validation, Bohan says. "The FBI fingerprint division for years has asserted that fingerprint identification has been validated by a hundred years of jury trials. They just don't get it," he says. "The best model for the validation work is DNA, which was delivered full-blown to the forensic labs after years of validation in university laboratories."
Bono feels that forensic scientists must bear some responsibility for not always getting their message across to judge and jury. "The science is good, but the ability of a scientist to operate in an arena like the courtroom is sorely lacking," he says.'
Fingerprint identification was validated by scientist for years before being delivered to the police also. Does the second paragraph here relate to the on proceeding paragraph, if so then;
'fingerprint identification has been validated by a hundred years of jury trials'
Either fingerprint officers have the ability in the court or DNA has a way to go in court room battles.