Battling to a draw: Defense expert rebuttal can neutralize prosecution fingerprint evidence

dc.contributor.author	Mitchell, Gregory
dc.contributor.author	Garrett, Brandon
dc.contributor.department	Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
dc.date	2021-06-28T13:29:21.000
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-14T04:11:54Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-14T04:11:54Z
dc.date.copyright	Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2021
dc.date.issued	2021-04-01
dc.description.abstract	<p>The present study examined whether a defense rebuttal expert can effectively educate jurors on the risk that the prosecution's fingerprint expert made an error. Using a sample of 1716 jury-eligible adults, we examined the impact of three types of rebuttal testimony in a mock trial: (a) a methodological rebuttal explaining the general risk of error in the fingerprint-comparison process; (b) a new-evidence rebuttal concluding the latent fingerprint recovered in this case was not suitable for use in a comparison; and (c) a new-evidence rebuttal excluding the defendant as the source of the latent fingerprint. All three rebuttals significantly altered perceptions of the prosecution's fingerprint evidence, but new-evidence rebuttals proved most effective. The effectiveness of the rebuttals depended, however, on whether jurors were more concerned about false acquittals or false convictions.</p>
dc.description.comments	<p>This article is published as Mitchell, Gregory, and Brandon L. Garrett. "Battling to a draw: Defense expert rebuttal can neutralize prosecution fingerprint evidence." <em>Applied Cognitive Psychology</em> (2021). Posted with permission of CSAFE.<br /><br /><br />All experimental materials and data connected with this research are publicly available at <a href="https://osf.io/hxr3g/?view_only=16e3c8160b6a4a63a56df8e241c8b5d9">https://osf.io/hxr3g/?view_only=16e3c8160b6a4a63a56df8e241c8b5d9</a>.</p>
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dc.source.uri	10.1002/acp.3824
dc.subject.disciplines	Forensic Science and Technology
dc.title	Battling to a draw: Defense expert rebuttal can neutralize prosecution fingerprint evidence
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