ts witnesses were presented over three days. The defense witnesses were presented over two days. One of the first things explained was the term fingerprint. This was described as the arrangement of friction ridged skin on the fingers and the palms. This was emphasized as a permanent ridged of skin that takes place during the gestation period of the human skin development. Fingerprint was again explained in more details to establish the individuality of each persons finger uniqueness and permanence.The governments attorney argued the fact that millions of fingerprint comparisons are performed by thousands of law enforcement agencies worldwide everyday and that it constituted a kind of testing in itself. Whereas, fingerprint advocates could not exactly go out and compared prints for every finger in the world in order to prove the uniqueness hypothesis. Mr. Sarmousakis further drew attention to a twin that although the fingerprints of identical twins are more similar than those of fraternal twins or unrelated individuals, they are still different. He stressed the point that if identical twins do not have identical fingerprints then we might assume that no one does.Another area that was explained was the friction ridge comparative process, which the objective is to identify the finger, which is responsible for depositing the latent impression on the evidence. This method is in four major steps 1) analysis 2) comparison 3) evaluation 4) verification. This scientific method for performing friction ridge comparisons is the same that is used by many other scientific comparative processes. Again this was explained in detail for each step. The error rate for the science of friction ridge being unique and permanent is zero because of the random development of the friction ridges. By each department following the scientific methodology of analysis, comparison, evaluation and verification, the error rate remains zero. It was noted that fingerprints ...
