Law & Order (TV Series)
Myth of Fingerprints (2001)
Elisabeth Röhm: ADA Serena Southerlyn
Quotes
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FBI Agent Foster : I found seven false positives out of the twenty that I tested.
Serena Southerlyn : It's over a third.
FBI Agent Foster : Statistically, it's impossible that she just kept making that many mistakes. And it gets worse.
Serena Southerlyn : How?
FBI Agent Foster : The original forensics team recovered over a dozen partial prints from inside the car where the victim had been shot. Now, fortunately, those prints were kept in a file at another location. At the time, this examiner declared them all unidentifiable. That wasn't true.
