More Judicial Stupidity
Oct 24, 2007 General
A judge in Baltimore Country Maryland has gone against a century of forensic science and ruled that fingerprint evidence is not reliable enough to use in a homicide case.
A Baltimore County judge has ruled that fingerprint evidence, a mainstay of forensics for nearly a century, is not reliable enough to be used against a homicide defendant facing a possible death sentence – a finding that national experts described yesterday as unprecedented and potentially far-reaching. Baltimore Sun
I know this judge based this ruling on a case that involved a mistake based on fingerprints but there have been countless cases where fingerprints were used to appropriately identify the criminal. Certainly the fingerprints in this case should have been allowed to be presented along with the rest of the evidence. This just makes no sense.
What will happen if there is a mistake made with DNA evidence? Will we then have judges throwing out DNA a evidence because of one case? This judge, Susan M. Souder, has made a gross mistake and she is either a moron or needs to be removed from the bench. It is bad enough we have judges legislating from the bench but when they get into deciding the validity of a science that has been used for 100 years they have really gone too far.
What kind of world is it where judges ignore 100 year old science and little mention is made but junk science like global warming gets all the press?
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