Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/27/2005

Commonwealth v. Patterson

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445 Mass. 626
840 N.E.2d 12
2005 Mass. LEXIS 765

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holding survey sufficient basis for finding of general acceptance where it indicated law enforcement in all fifty states and several foreign countries accepted theory
holding ACE-V method reliable under Daubert for single latent fingerprint impressions
\underlying premise\ of fingerprint individualization \is the uniqueness and permanence of human friction ridge arrangements\
defining trial judges’ “traditional role as gatekeepers ... [as] protecting juries from evidence that had little chance of being reliable”
“Where general acceptance is not established . . . , a full Daubert analysis provides an alternate method of establishing reliability”
“the jury will decide the ultimate question of the conclusiveness of the results of a reliable application of a methodology”

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