
The Field of Firearms Forensics Is Flawed
The matching of bullets to guns is subjective, and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts
David L. Faigman is chancellor and dean and John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings, College of the Law. Faigman regularly teaches at judicial conferences about the strengths and weaknesses of the forensic specialties and has testified in more than a dozen cases on firearms and other forensic areas of claimed expertise. He was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama's President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's (PCAST's) 2016 report.
The matching of bullets to guns is subjective, and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts
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