United States v. Mahone

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “other federal courts have favorably analyzed the ACE-V method under Daubert [v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993),] for footwear and fingerprint impressions”
• guoting Ruiz-Troche v. Pepsi Cola of P.R. Bottling Co., 161 F.3d 77, 85 (1st Cir. 1998)
• referring to a blind verification where the verifier “had not reviewed [the initial] report before conducting his examination”
• ACEV method “has been the subject of widespread publication,” is “highly accepted in the forensics field,” and “federal courts have found ACEV to be reliable under Daubert”
• expert need not be “blue-ribbon practitioner” in the relevant discipline in order to have sufficient knowledge
• expert need not be “blue-ribbon practitioner” in the relevant discipline in order to have sufficient knowledge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).