Leaders in Prince George’s County are reviewing more than 100 criminal cases after concerns were raised about fingerprint analysis conducted by a single forensic examiner.

Police have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis but have not determined how many cases were affected by such errors, police officials said. A confidential police report details ...

More than 100 criminal cases are being reviewed by Prince George's County officials after an internal audit found ...

N E W  Y O R K, April 15 -- Detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Andy Sipowitz have used them to nab criminals. DNA Tests? Not quite. Rather, fingerprints have been used for decades with nearly ...

Fingerprint analysis by artificial intelligence could solve cold cases and overturn wrongful convictions. A new development that can identify whether prints from different fingers came from the same ...

Contrary to what many would like to believe, fingerprint evidence isn't all that reliable. Partial prints and smudged prints can be difficult to read, and in the U.S. at least, fingerprint analysis is ...

LAPD officers have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis - and it's still unclear how many cases are tainted by the sloppy errors, police officials said. An internal police ...

Criminals typically leave behind fingerprints at the crime scene. Forensics helps investigators analyse these fingerprints. However, fingerprints left at a crime scene are often partial, distorted and ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when ...