Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Patterson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 27, 2005PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
In 1995, Terry L. Patterson was convicted of the murder of a Boston police detective.1 His conviction was based in large part on the expert testimony of a member of the Boston police latent fingerprint section, who used the most common method of latent fingerprint identification, ACE-V,2 to determine that four latent impressions found on the victim’s vehicle were left by Patterson. While no single latent impression, on its own, could reliably be matched to its allegedly corresponding finger, the fingerprint examiner based his testimony on the cumulative similarities observed between the…
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