DOJ OIG Report (2006)
Definition
The US Department of Justice OIG report reconstructing the Mayfield error. An executive summary appeared in January 2006 and a redacted full report in March 2006. It identified examination errors and systemic weaknesses and made 18 recommendations.
Related terms
- ACE-V
- Analysis, Comparison, Evaluation, Verification: the four-stage method for latent print examination used by accredited forensic fingerprint laboratories. Analysis examines the latent in...
- Blind Verification
- The procedure in which a second fingerprint examiner independently performs the Analysis and Comparison stages without knowledge of the first examiner's conclusion....
- Confirmation Bias
- The cognitive tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or...
- Contextual Bias
- The influence of case-relevant background information (suspect financial difficulties, police intelligence) on the direction of an examiner's technical analysis. Demonstrated experimentally for...
- Evaluative Reporting
- A reporting framework that assesses the strength of findings under competing propositions, often using likelihood ratios or a verbal scale. The ENFSI...
- Linear ACE-V
- A one-directional implementation of the analysis-comparison-evaluation-verification methodology that prevents the examiner from revisiting earlier phases with information acquired in later phases, reducing...
- OSAC Friction Ridge Subcommittee
- The NIST-housed committee that produces formal consensus standards for friction ridge examination in the United States, operating within the Biology Scientific Area...
- Sequential Unmasking
- An information-sequencing protocol in which the examiner receives the questioned material first, completes and documents the analysis before receiving the known standards,...
- SWGFAST
- The Scientific Working Group for Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology, which published the foundational ACE-V methodology documents from 1995 until its...