Supporting Fingerprint Identification Assessments Using A Skin Stretch Model − a Preliminary Study

Fingerprint identification, as currently practiced by examiners, is a subjective evidence form in which a fingerprint examiner, based on their training and experience, is required to provide an expert opinion on a comparison of minutiae to determine whether a fingermark was created by a certain person as opposed to some other person. For the majority of the 20th Century, such testimonies have been very rarely challenged. However, in the wake of the Daubert decision by the Supreme Court in the USA, concerning expert evidence admissibility [1] and the 2009 report of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) [2], there have been a number of questions raised regarding the scientific validity of forensic fingerprint identification [3–8]1.

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