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Mayfield error

The 2004 FBI misidentification of Brandon Mayfield as a contributor to a latent print from the Madrid train bombing, attributed by the DOJ Inspector General review to confirmatory bias during verification; now a reference case study for cognitive-bias training in fingerprint examination worldwide.

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Blind verificationConfirmation biasContextual biasEvaluative reportingLIMS stage gatingLinear ACE-VSequential unmaskingSWGFASTWithin-expert contradiction

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