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Fingerprint Evidence in Court: How Flawed Error Estimations Disserve the Criminal Legal System
Estimations of rates of errors committed by forensic fingerprint examiners play an important role in the criminal legal system. Judges and jurors rely on error rate estimations as primary indications of the probative value of assertions by fingerprint examiners that they can reliably identify the people who deposit latent prints at crime scenes. Recognizing the need to qualify fingerprint…
The Supreme Court's Pragmatic Turn on the Separation of Powers: Refining Appointments Clause and Nondelegation Doctrine
Pragmatism is the hallmark of two recent Supreme Court decisions on the separation of powers, Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. , and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) v. Consumers’ Research . These cases, which dealt with the Appointments Clause and the nondelegation doctrine (public and private) respectively, reject a rigid, literalist approach. Instead, these decisions strive to make…
