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Re:Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or... by darkpuma on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:14PM (#18907475)
"Forensic science" has a long history of being flagrant psuedo-science, very often being a morally bankrupt abuse of statistics.
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Re:Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or... by lightbyte on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:07AM (#18911167)
My favorite example:

>In one case, West claimed to have matched the bite marks in a half-eaten bologna sandwich to the defendant. The jury convicted. (The conviction was overturned on appeal when defense lawyers discovered that the autopsy report recorded a partial bologna sandwich in the stomach of the victim.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/17/...

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