according to Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Susan Souder.
In her opinion, Souder repeatedly cited an example of a flawed fingerprint analysis involving an Oregon lawyer mistakenly linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Souder's ruling involves the case of 23-year-old Bryan Rose of Baltimore, who is charged in the January 2006 shooting death of Warren Fleming during an attempted carjacking outside the Security Square Mall. The partial fingerprints were taken from Fleming's car.
In the opinion, Souder says the long history of fingerprinting as a crime-solving tool doesn't mean it is reliable. Souder also discounted testimony that fingerprinting is an infallible methodology, saying it was "neither credible nor persuasive."
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