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Gary Hughes
"You won’t see this on CSI. A forensic slip-up that saw a partial fingerprint mismatched by the FBI has led to the US Government paying US$2 million (A$2.55 million) compensation and apologising to a lawyer wrongly accused of being involved in the Madrid terrorist train bombings. Details of the case – and how it went terribly wrong - show the dangers of believing forensic science is infallible. [..] In March the Department of Justice’s inquiry into the case concluded that although there had been “unusual” similarities between the two prints, “the examiners committed errors in the examination procedure and that the misidentification could have been prevented through a more rigorous application of latent fingerprint identification”. "
