United States v. Byron Mitchell

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• concluding that a district court wouldn’t abuse its discretion by “dispensing with the hearing altogether if no novel challenge [to latent fingerprint evidence] was raised”
• noting that although ACE-V verification may not be blinded, it still constitutes “peer review” that favors admission of the method
• explaining that the absence of factual findings did not require a different standard of review where the district court “assessed extensive live testimony” over a five-day Daubert hearing
• describing the FBI \sliding scale\ standard, which considers both the quality and quantity of matching points
• describing the FBI “sliding scale” standard, which considers both the quality and quantity of matching points
• concluding friction ridge analysis is generally accepted in the “forensic identification community”

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