Federal Judge Won’t Allow Fingerprint Expert To Testify In Carjacking Death Case

( June 24, 2025, 8:23 AM EDT) -- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An expert retained by a criminal defendant is clearly qualified to opine on latent fingerprint identification, but his proposed testimony on whether a print fragment indicates that it was left by someone wearing a glove or covering is beyond his area of expertise, a federal judge in Puerto Rico ruled....