State v. Dixon

OPINION

STONEBURNER, Judge.

Appellant was charged with first-degree burglary based primarily on finger- and palm-print evidence collected at the scene. Appellant requested a Frye-Mack hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence that he is the source of the prints found. After a four-day Frye-Mack hearing, the district court concluded that the state had met its burden to establish that friction-ridge-print identification using the ACE-V methodology is generally accepted by experts in the field as reliable and that the examiner in this case complied with the appropriate standards and…