Simon Cole

Simon Cole
Simon Andrew Coleis Chief Executive of UBC Media Group...
blindly convict error errors evidence faulty innocent openly prevent rather study ways zero
Rather than blindly insisting there is zero error in fingerprint matching, we should acknowledge the obvious, study the errors openly and find constructive ways to prevent faulty evidence from being used to convict innocent people.
author says shows study
It shows that the author of the study says it doesn't have anything to do with reliability.
argument caught clearly conviction errors evaluation evidence full infallible lab resulted rug simply swept
While we don't know how many fingerprint errors are caught in the lab and then swept under the rug or, worse, how many have still not been caught and may have resulted in a wrongful conviction we clearly need a full evaluation of the errors. The argument that fingerprints are infallible evidence is simply unacceptable.