Legal Opinion
United States v. Rivas
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 2016No. 13-3526PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
A fingerprint examiner testified at trial that he was certain the partial fingerprint found on a 9 millimeter handgun belonged to Joel Rivas. Rivas wanted to cast doubt on the reliability of the method the examiner used by questioning him about an unrelated case in which the FBI used the same method to erroneously conclude that the fingerprint of an Oregon lawyer was on a bag containing detonating devices used in terrorist bombings in 2004 in Spain. The district court did not infringe Rivas’s rights under the Confrontation Clause when it ruled the defense could not…
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