This particular case was about a crime that happened in the early nineties. An armored car was held up at gunpoint and twenty thousand dollars was taken from inside of it (Precedential, 2004). It was thought that the robbery itself was performed by William Robinson and Terrence Stewart. Byron Mitchell had waited in a car nearby as their getaway driver. By the time the trials occurred, Mitchell was the only one left alive save for a fourth man that was thought to have helped them case the area they were going to rob and subsequently he was the only one that stood trial for the robbery.
The fourth man, named Kim Chester, involved with the crime was one of the witnesses that testified against Mitchell. When Mitchell was arrested he was charged with “with conspiracy to commit and commission of Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, and use …show more content…
He stated that the FBI, “does not rely on a minimum “points” standard for matching fingerprints” (Precedential, 2004). This was due to the fact that it was left up to each examiner as to how many points determined if a print was a match to another. If any mistakes were made during this process than it would have been caught afterwards. This was due to the fact that each fingerprint match would need to be peer reviewed by at least two other examiners.
Standards were different between each examiner that handled a fingerprint. Some might think it would be acceptable to have fewer points of references that are similar between the two prints, but another one might require more. The prints matched had to meet the standard of each examiner and if they did than there was room for no error when it came to matching them to an unknown set of prints. The likelihood of error being at zero meant that there was no chance that, if the prints found in the car were examined by multiple people and still found to be a match, they were all
The fourth man, named Kim Chester, involved with the crime was one of the witnesses that testified against Mitchell. When Mitchell was arrested he was charged with “with conspiracy to commit and commission of Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, and use …show more content…
He stated that the FBI, “does not rely on a minimum “points” standard for matching fingerprints” (Precedential, 2004). This was due to the fact that it was left up to each examiner as to how many points determined if a print was a match to another. If any mistakes were made during this process than it would have been caught afterwards. This was due to the fact that each fingerprint match would need to be peer reviewed by at least two other examiners.
Standards were different between each examiner that handled a fingerprint. Some might think it would be acceptable to have fewer points of references that are similar between the two prints, but another one might require more. The prints matched had to meet the standard of each examiner and if they did than there was room for no error when it came to matching them to an unknown set of prints. The likelihood of error being at zero meant that there was no chance that, if the prints found in the car were examined by multiple people and still found to be a match, they were all